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biotech: reproductive technologies

Biotech is a rapidly evolving world through providing possibilities for infertile people to have children:

Patricia Piccinni, The Mutant Genome Project, 1995

Reproductive technologies are an example of the changes we are living. Consider this account. First we have a description of reproductive technologies:

"Reproductive technologies are the medical capability to remove human eggs and sperm from one set of bodies, perform operations on them, and return them to the same female body, place them in another female body, or cryopreserve them. In addition to removing fertilization from the interior of women's bodies and transferring it to the laboratory, reproductive technologies also remove male ejaculation from it's endpoint in the female body, reducing it to masturbation in clinic bathrooms."

Then an account of the significance of these technologies:

"All reproductive technologies separate reproduction from heterosexual sex and marriage. Potentially, that separation makes reproduction possible for those outside of the tradition heterosexual couple, offering new democratic family and parenting options. Not only are new individuals conceived as a result of technology, but so are new family, kinship, and parenting practices."

Reproductive technologies trouble and divide people as well as assist them.

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Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at June 6, 2004 11:56 PM | TrackBack