The issue of reproductive technology is fresh on my mind at the moment,
as I am writing a short story (short? well - its about 50 thousand words
long at the moment, but I'm cutting as we speak) about cloning - this
concept is very interesting, but also - I think - far more frightening
than anonymous sperm and egg donation.
But we have new technology for everything, from organising
magazines to cooking our dinner: possibly the question we should be
asking is - why is sex (or the absence of it in the reproductive process)
such an issue - and what stereotypical behaviour / expectations eminate
from these 'issues' viz 'the genders'.
And speaking of stereotypcial behaviouro - regarding the male pill - why
shouldn't men want to control their
reproductive capacity? After all, as far as I know, most of them men I
associate with who've had children still bond with them.
Brigid Venables.
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Laura Wigod wrote:
> >>And I wont even start with the etical issues surrounding all of the new
> >>reproductive technology - but one question - how would you feel if you
> >>were born of combination anonymous sperm and egg donation and carried by
> >>a surrogate and would never in your life have any idea where your human
> >>roots were?
>
> Ummmm.............better than a child who was rejected by its parents after
> birth? Better than a child severely abused by its biological parents?
> And.....speaking for many of us, I'm sure....better than a child who is
> Only Too Aware of the genetic code it's carrying around! ;-)
>
> Laura
>
> P.S. - On the male birth control pill issue, I have serious, admittedly
> cynical, thoughts about how motivated a guy would be to take it when the
> repurcussions of an unplanned pregnancy have zero physical affect on him.
> I mean, he could _lie_ and say he's on it. Sure, so could a woman, but, if
> she gets pregnant, _she_ suffers the consequences, not the "father."
>
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