Here’s my post on how people do not agree on what "natural childbirth" is or should be and how all my problems could have been solved with two little wireless sensors. I was firmly against drugs during labor unless I changed my mind during labor. (How’s that for a decision! But having never been in […]
Drugs or no drugs when giving birth? And why all medical sensors should be wireless! Read More »
The oldest woman to ever give birth got to pick her child’s genes, or at least the donors, and then she gave birth to them: Bousada, a Spaniard, sold her home in Spain to raise 30,000 pounds ($60,000) to pay for the treatment in the United States. She chose donor eggs from a "pretty, brown-haired
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So I think buying human embryos is fraught with moral and ethical issues but what about human eggs? This article seems to think it’s unethical because the program that buys eggs (for stem cell research) might exploit poor women. There are two issues that are getting mixed up here: buying a human body part buying
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A few days ago I blogged about the adoption agency that is buying human embryos – I wrote that I think they are on morally shaky ground. Well, today’s news gives me the same confused and uncomfortable feeling. This guy’s family took sperm from his dead body, found a volunteer mom and they are having
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