Doctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism

[violaine]

Otherwise their daughters might grow up to, um, be nominated to sit on the Supreme Court, serve as cabinet secretaries, take 18 Grand Slam singles titles, win Grammies, and take their girlfriends to prom.

And we can't have that.

-- or they might be aspie. ha.

not interested in any 'cure' for that either, by the way!

[paintedleofemme]

My blood pressure is so high right now its not even funny(I need a cig,not that thats good!) But really, trying to prevent homosexual woman? This woman needs to get bent, let me do it please! We have all kinds of children born into this world, children with mental and physical disabilities , whats next, a shot for them? It saddens me what some people use science for, like this, nothing good.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by paintedleofemme

My blood pressure is so high right now its not even funny(I need a cig,not that thats good!) But really, trying to prevent homosexual woman? This woman needs to get bent, let me do it please! We have all kinds of children born into this world, children with mental and physical disabilities , whats next, a shot for them? It saddens me what some people use science for, like this, nothing good.

Actually, these are different KINDS of things. If there is a cure for, just to name a few, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy or Huntington's don't you think we *should* pursue it? Let's take, for instance, Huntington's because we *know* what causes it. Huntington's is caused by repeats of a particular sequence on a particular chromosome. Everyone has this particular repeat pattern but the problem arises if you have too many repeats. Now, since we know what the sequence is and we know what chromosome it lies on, if we could edit out the repeats and spare people a really unpleasant death shouldn't we do that? Editing out something like Tay-Sachs or Huntington's or, for that matter, sickle cell anemia would have demonstrable medical benefits and lives would be saved. That is not in the same ethical universe as someone who thinks that homosexuality is a biological 'error' and should be edited out.

Now, it may be a while before we can do the kind of genome editing I'm talking about but nothing in principle prevents it from happening and I see nothing ethically wrong with it. If one can prevent someone from contracting a disease should that be done?

Cheers
Aj