Monday, February 02, 2004
Is anyone familiar with Preimplantation genetic diagnosis?? I really am not, but I read a letter in Newsweek that made me curious about it. Apparently it can make it so people can choose the sex of there baby. I personally dont think that is right, we should let nature do that choosing... From that letter there said there was other posititve things about it also (like for those people whom cant produce a good embryo). So I will do a little research here. Provide some links of what I was reading and let people make there decisions. OR I will get bored of reading this stuff and end this post here... We shall see!
On a side note... I am watching WWE RAM and there showing a thing from a past RAW... Might I say Mick Folley (SP?) is F'ing awesome! okay back to the other rnat....
Okay the first article I read let me no of some of the more positive aspects of it. If you or your partner suffer from a genetic disorder they can test the embryo's and seeif they have the disease or not. THey can then select only the healthy ones to go on and produce a healthy child. This child would be free of whatever disease it is the parent suffers from. This is a positive (in my opinion). I know I would much prefer a child without any genetic disorders that I might have or whomever my mate might have. Some critics say that this could increase discrimination against those with these diseases, or even kids with retardation. I would just want to ask them... Why would you want your child to have this? This article also mentions the areas that i dont agree with. Where they say it will also make it so you can choose the childs sex, eye color, etc....anyway, ON TO THE NEXT ARTICLE!
So here is the next article I read. This article is a short little thing about how a couple picked there childs sex. This I do not agree with. Even though they have all sons and REALLY wanted a daughter, I still dont think they should be able to choose. That is just step one of making a 'designer' child (as they call them in the article) Thats all we need... Designer babies, a world full of kids who look EXACTLY the same. Okay ONE more article then I will end this rant, because I doubt anyone is reading it anyway.
okay this last article is how the technology cna be a postive. This is about how they used the procedure to make it so there child didnt develop a potentially fatal (but arent they all?) cancer retinoblastoma. This cancer also makes it so the infected person has 'missing' cells throught the body and make them much more likely to get other cancers. So If this tech is used for this reasoning then I am ALL for it. If it can be used to save a child from a life of totrurous doctor visits and a life fll of problems...
Okay people as always you are more than welcome to comment on this in the forumn. Until something else piques my interest... GOODBYE!!
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On a side note... I am watching WWE RAM and there showing a thing from a past RAW... Might I say Mick Folley (SP?) is F'ing awesome! okay back to the other rnat....
Okay the first article I read let me no of some of the more positive aspects of it. If you or your partner suffer from a genetic disorder they can test the embryo's and seeif they have the disease or not. THey can then select only the healthy ones to go on and produce a healthy child. This child would be free of whatever disease it is the parent suffers from. This is a positive (in my opinion). I know I would much prefer a child without any genetic disorders that I might have or whomever my mate might have. Some critics say that this could increase discrimination against those with these diseases, or even kids with retardation. I would just want to ask them... Why would you want your child to have this? This article also mentions the areas that i dont agree with. Where they say it will also make it so you can choose the childs sex, eye color, etc....anyway, ON TO THE NEXT ARTICLE!
So here is the next article I read. This article is a short little thing about how a couple picked there childs sex. This I do not agree with. Even though they have all sons and REALLY wanted a daughter, I still dont think they should be able to choose. That is just step one of making a 'designer' child (as they call them in the article) Thats all we need... Designer babies, a world full of kids who look EXACTLY the same. Okay ONE more article then I will end this rant, because I doubt anyone is reading it anyway.
okay this last article is how the technology cna be a postive. This is about how they used the procedure to make it so there child didnt develop a potentially fatal (but arent they all?) cancer retinoblastoma. This cancer also makes it so the infected person has 'missing' cells throught the body and make them much more likely to get other cancers. So If this tech is used for this reasoning then I am ALL for it. If it can be used to save a child from a life of totrurous doctor visits and a life fll of problems...
Okay people as always you are more than welcome to comment on this in the forumn. Until something else piques my interest... GOODBYE!!
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