British IVF Law Changes Raise Many Questions

Submitted by 032105 on Thu, 2006-12-14 02:15

Story here. Excerpt:

'In London, government health officials announced that a child's need for a father will no longer will be a consideration when a woman seeks fertility treatment via sperm donation. They also stated that the creation of a human embryo from two women would be forbidden because it would make men obsolete in reproduction.'

If a human embryo can be made from two women, why shouldn't it be done? Why should men continue to waste time engaging in the procreational process if we are not needed? Why should we continue to donate sperm if it is unnecessary?

I'm not in the least intimidated by the notion of being cut out of the procreational process. I think the making of embryos by two women SHOULD BE allowed, and men should stop donating sperm. Men are not afraid of becoming obsolete in the procreational process! I'm curious to see how it all would turn out. I desperately hope London's government health officials overturn this inhibition.

What we need to do is go on a national campaign educating men about such reproductive technologies and encourage them not to donate sperm.

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Ed. note: Also covered by the BBC here.

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This legal overhaul is just too much! Chimeras allowed? Well, I can imagine they probably feel it can't be stopped, so may as well regulate it. It's been known for some time that 2 women can create a baby by fusing their eggs, though the outcome is not always good-- apparently this is very fraught with dangers, particularly birth defects. Also, 2 women's eggs can only ever produce a female child ("Hooray" shout the feminists out there-- yeah, I hear ya...)

But I wonder why they would ban the fusing of 2 women's eggs but allow the presence of a "father figure" to be omitted from consideration? Looks like the work of a committee to me.

Well, the whole thing makes me want to become a Luddite. Really, once again, I am glad I won't make it past 2050. I don't want to see the world as it will be in 2100. Ugh.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Thu, 2006-12-14 03:27

Creating an embryo from two women is prohibited because it "render men altogether unnecessary".

The good news is that this law does not prohibit the artificial womb when an embryo is growing outside of female uterus. Which thus makes women obsolete in reproduction and newborn children much more healthy.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Thu, 2006-12-14 09:33