Is it okay to use genetic editing to heal disease?
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Is it okay to use genetic editing to heal disease?
Plus, men breastfeeding and Monty Python on gender ideology
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I sit down with Emily de Ardo, author of Living Memento Mori to chat about her experience living with cystic fibrosis and the potential of genetic editing to heal an existing condition.
What would that mean for the patients involved?
Is there something about our genetics that is intrinsic to us, that we wouldn’t want to change?
What’s new in bioethics?
The first live babies have been born after uterine transplant from a deceased donor. Now, men want these too.
On that note, men also seek to induce lactation so they, too, can breastfeed infants.
Social media sperm celebrity Kyle Gordy now wants to find love (just not with the mothers of the 65 children he’s already fathered).
Watchlist:
Today is the premiere of “King of Clones” on Netflix, a documentary detailing the story of the Korean scientist who claimed to have created the first human clones.
Let me know what you think!
I’ve got my popcorn ready.
Required Reading:
Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer by by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer
Finally, June is always a good time to revisit this prophetic scene:
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Is it okay to use genetic editing to heal disease?
For some reason, the links didn't work in the Gmail version, but do in the app. Loved your book!!
Woah. Thanks for the article links. They were very interesting and informative and also open up sooo many questions. The one I’m currently considering is the uterine transplant requiring baby to be born by c section- c section is a major surgery that has inherent risks and I wonder if these risks are being adequately discussed. (I also realize c-sections can be life saving for women and babies who require it so I’m not against c sections! but I do think there’s something untruthful about the cavalier way it’s said ‘oh babies in a uterine transplant situation are automatically born by c section’... which of course has to happen if you can’t have a vaginal birth because you lack a vagina....) but I have a friend who experienced uterine rupture and nearly died and it’s a real risk. Is this risk shared? It seems like it would be even a higher risk in a donated uterus because of the surgical procedure of placing the uterus and any surgery on a uterus increases the risk of uterine rupture, I would think.
Also I was really taken aback when I had to fill out the birth certificate form for my 5th baby (he’s 2 weeks old so this is recent!) and the forms listed “birth parent (mother)” and “non birth parent (father)” Are the titles mother and father now considered after thoughts? I was very surprised and found it hard for fill out the form because I kept getting tripped up in the language.