Guest guest Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:02:03 -0500 WC Douglass Baby talk Daily Dose November 21, 2003 ************************************************************** This gives " changing the baby " a whole new meaning... Technology. It's sold to us as a benefit - the key to enriching our already too-perfect lives. Safer cars, cleaner furnaces, better medicine (and more expensive, too!), ever-larger and cheaper TVs... And genetic engineering. Despite our best efforts to regulate it, stop it from progressing, ban or criminalize it, cloning and other genome-based technologies march forward. There is no more sobering example of technology run amuck than the growing specter of human genetic engineering. This is the same basic idea - or fear, more accurately - that has arisen time and again in monumental works of literature from Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Asimov, and the great Philip K. Dick, just to name a few... Make no mistake, folks - unnatural selection is coming. And SOON. How do I know? Because we're already beginning to " test the waters " for it. For instance, some recent research concluded that sex selection - were it a viable option - would be unlikely to skew the boy/girl ratio in several European countries. In the survey-based research, about as many people claimed to want boys as wanted girls. And among those respondents that wanted multiple children, they tended to want an equal number of each... But my question is this: If forces within the scientific community weren't seriously considering moving forward with a sex selection program at some point in the future, why the need to study the public's attitudes about it? Also, if the study's findings are true (that nobody cares about the sex of their baby), why mull offering sex selection as an option in the first place? Something's rotten here... Personally, I think this research is faulty at best, intentionally misleading at worst. Like it or not (and whether it's PC to say it or not), in some cultures around the world, boy-children are preferred to girl-children. Need proof? Consider the well-documented history of female infanticide in China and other Asian nations. Clearly, if sex selection became the norm in cultures with this mindset, there'd be 20 boys to every girl in the span of a single generation. How do you think the already-bleak women's rights picture would look in such nations then? Shocking, yes. But then, the truth often is. Consider this next tidbit from our OWN SHORES... To start receiving your own copy of the Daily Dose, visit: http://www.realhealthnews.com/dailydose/freecopy.html Or forward this e-mail to a friend so they can sign-up to receive their own copy of the Daily Dose. ************************************************************** Honey, it's a girl - and a divorce... Don't shoot the messenger on this one, OK? I'm only relaying this to you now because it shocked me as much as it'll likely shock you - and because it's tellingly illustrative of the way the future might look if science is given untrammeled access to our wombs... According to an Oct. 2 article in Slate Magazine (a credible, if edgy, source of news and opinion), parents of a girl are significantly more likely to divorce than parents of a boy. And that number grows even larger when more female children are tossed into the mix - parents of three girls were twice as more likely to give up on their marriage than parents of three boys... And that's just in the progressive, tolerant U.S. of A. In some other countries (Mexico and Colombia, for example), those numbers are larger still. And in Vietnam, it's a whopping 25% greater divorce rate following the birth of a girl! Still think parents wouldn't choose the sex of their children if they could? Dear reader, I've seen a lot in my 70+ years on this Earth (more than 40 of them as a doctor). I've seen wars and I've seen sickness and I've seen death. But scariest of all, I've seen more and more perfectly healthy people trying to make themselves even more perfect with silicone, collagen, botox, laser surgery, hair removal, hair implantation, tooth whitening, and on and on and on... These folks just aren't content with who they were born to be. And I think they'd try to do the same kind of tinkering to their unborn children (starting with sex selection), if only they could. Clearly, the urge to meddle with, refine, and perfect nature is simply too powerful for many people to resist. Do I think human genetic engineering is coming? YES. But I hope we come to our senses before we make ourselves into a world of soulless, " perfect " beings... " Engineered " the natural way, William Campbell Douglass II, MD Copyright ©1997-2003 by www.realhealthnews.com, L.L.C. 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