Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up (Trees And Things)

ms sue: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:28:28 EST

Wow. Talk about cutting-edge technology.

housewife2000: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:14:46 EST

Yeah, but the milkman for my area is a woman! Explaint that!

teaweed: Made-to-Order Babies

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:10:43 EST

I haven't heard that there are genes for unattractive or dumb. I wonder if the patrons of this business honestly believe they're buying superior embryos, or if they're just hoping like most parents for the child's best. I also wonder if th

charlies: Abomination!!

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:12:57 EST

Yes, it's an abomination! If women can have these embryos implanted, why, oh, why would I and my fellow-PhDs go to the gym every day to keep our abs all ripped? Why would we skip the Nobel awards ceremony to jog twenty miles? We do it for our groupies, all

Thalia: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:00:54 EST

I'm not going to worry about it as long as it's a standard combination of egg & sperm. If you want to use the sperm/egg of a Nobel Prize winner & you can't get them into bed directly, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to buy it. I'l

ms sue: Re: Heh

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:19:31 EST

Did I? :-)

Lou: Heh

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:31:37 EST

You said "misconception "

ms sue: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:10:04 EST

I'm afraid I had the same misconception as did wetkarma.

So we're back to the milkman then. :-)

Thalia: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:03:16 EST

Clearly Wetkarma was being excessively delicate.

housewife2000: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:31:39 EST

I might have been a little unclear...All three of my boys were concieved in the old fashioned, fun, time honored tradition.

ms sue: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:27:25 EST

I hate to be indelicate..but have you considered the possibility that either your egg or hubby's sperm got switched with someone else?

At least the milkman's off the hook these days.

wetkarma: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:43:27 EST

My youngest has red hair...RED HAIR, we still don't know how that happened.

I hate to be indelicate..but have you considered the possibility that either your egg or hubby's sperm got switched with someone else?

housewife2000: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:16:27 EST

On top of the risks of the embryo not taking, nothing guarentees that combing the dna of two attractive, inteligent, healthy people creates a child that isn't ugly, sickly, and dumb as a box of rocks. I have three kids, and all of them resemble their

MayorBob: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:42:30 EST

I'm not even certain this qualifies as good biotech. It involves IVF, which isn't really cutting edge medicine or anything. The genetic engineering of this seems awfully unsophisticated -- essentially match up a sperm from a stud muffin PHD wit

port1080: Re: Made-to-Order Babies Coming Right Up

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:01:40 EST

This creeps me out, but at the same time I think it's practically inevitable. How do you legislate against something like this? If people want it, they'll get it. Proponents will frame the fight in the language of pro-choice abortion advo