Re: virus: Creating life to save a life?

From: Sean Kenny (seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 09:13:23 MDT


I saw the father interviewed in that same report and he said that they'd
always planned to have 3 or 4 children. This seems to be me to be a
perfectably acceptable use of the available technology in the circumstances.
I too don't understnad why they're being allowed to do this in the UK.

>
> No where in the report did it say that they wanted another chlid, either.
> The impression I got (this may just be my interpretation, and this is from
> the BBC News 24 reports on the matter, not the website) is that their
> motivations for wanting a second child it to cure the first.
>
> If I'm right, what kind of life is the new child going to have? [S]he's
> going to be moderatly famous, considering all the news coverage, and will
> one day probably find out about his/her entry into the world. What efect
> would this have on him/her?
>
> <snip rest>



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