Chemical Sperm Substitute Allows Baby-Making Without Men

	posted by Nightmist on Tuesday October 23, @11:41AM from the science dept.
	This story in Australia's Herald Sun reports on another new technique for women which will allow them to conceive children without men. Scientists have engineered synthetic sperm which clones the 23 chromosomes from the human female egg, completing the number of chromosomes necessary for an egg to begin cell division and develop into an embryo. This path is filled with dangerous consequences, though, and not just for men. It could also be dangerous for the child produced by such means. "The big risk with this parthenogenesis is if you've got bad genes . . . (you would be) very concerned about abnormalities of the offspring.

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Epsilon Minus Idea by Uberganger on Wednesday October 24, @04:59AM EST (#1) (User #308 Info) If there's some kind of practical use for this, that's fine. Maybe there are perfectly normal women who are, for some reason, biologically incapable of having their own children in any other way. I wouldn't begrudge them the option. As for the rest. Well. If a woman loathes men so much that she wants to create a clone of herself so she doesn't have to go anywhere near a Y chromasome, I say let her. That way she won't be ruining some man's life by either: a) Marrying him. b) Bankrupting him. c) Raising him. Her father-deprived daughter may well rebel against the selfish creature she is a genetic clone of. Fortunately manhating is not genetic. Nobody is going to get rid of men. Lots of women like men and they like having bouncy sons instead of whiney daughters. Men are funky and they smell different. Men look good in T-shirts. Anyone who thinks we're about to be eliminated must have got some alcohol in their bottle before they were decanted. Thank Ford for a little sanity!

Re:Epsilon Minus Idea by LadyRivka (abrouty@wells.edu) on Thursday December 27, @10:18PM EST (#2) (User #552 Info) http://ladyrivka.iscool.net Men look good in T-shirts. ...and tight leather pants, blue jeans, anything else!!! *G* But I don't know if I'd rather have a son or a daughter yet. I'm 19 and I'm too immature for such things. *sniff* NO MORE SEMEN?!? GAAH! I'm panicking! This is one new technology I'm very scared of (and one that was predicted in a feminist SF tome I once read), and I support such things as cloning (for moral reasons) and cybernetic lifeforms. If other women think thant any part of the male anatomy is disgusting, they either 1.) have a problem, 2.) haven't read any anatomy books or 3.)haven't had very good experience with BJ's. (Sorry, had to put that in there for a laugh.) I love guys to death, and God forbid people avoid genetic variation by avoiding contact with anyone with a Y chromosome! On another note, when feminists talk about the importance/politics of breast milk, remember that semen creates (OK, helps create) and breast milk only maintains. :) "Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.

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