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...good thing that most doctors are principled professionals, since there is nothing to stop them from implanting 10 embryos in a woman hoping to give birth to a softball team. Embryos can be bought and sold and cloned and even implanted in a monkey's womb because this is the most private of industries, a $4 billion business that largely polices itself. Liberals worry about egg selling and womb rental, about poor women being exploited to help rich women have children--but they don't want to push too hard, because reproductive freedom is a hallowed right. Conservatives struggle...
...ever wish you'd finished college? -Rafi Katz, Silver Spring, MD.I'm just not that type of person. As soon as I got out of the womb I was ready to do this. Then there's other times-I'm not really high-tech computer-savvy, and there's some things that I do have weaknesses with. I don't know if school would have made that better for me. I'm cool with the way I've turned...
...narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with a person whose MHC is too similar to your own, and the risk increases that the womb will expel the fetus. Find a partner with sufficiently different MHC, and you're likelier to carry a baby to term...
...inserted into a womb and gestated normally. Result: clones with the same tender meat or premium milk. Only their offspring are killed?the clones themselves are too expensive...
...narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with a person whose MHC is too similar to your own, and the risk increases that the womb will expel the fetus. Find a partner with sufficiently different MHC, and you're likelier to carry a baby to term...