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To: KarlInOhio
There are lots of environmental causes for congenital conditions. What if the hormone balance in the mother is wrong? Not enough vitamins? Illness during pregnancy?

That's the one this debate always causes me to think about. It's my understanding that quite a few things can go wrong during that nine month gestation period.

Physical defects such as club feet or a hair lip, or hermaphradites, and others, and even some problems of brain development. Are there genes for those defects, or are they developmental problems of the fetus?

I'm not certain, but I think the nine month gestation period is a possibility for various developmental problems, but it never seems to be mentioned in the gay debate one way or the other.

48 posted on 09/07/2014 7:59:00 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

Although it sounds very logical it is not so simple many detrimental genes only express in th of what appear to be two unaffected individuals.

Additionally many persons who express themselves as homosexual will also have children biologically has the desire to have children is not solely linkd to heterosexual persons. This is not to say that we are cast by our genetics into preordained choices.


56 posted on 09/07/2014 8:09:38 PM PDT by Bidimus1
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Let’s hold off on the blame the mother going on here.

Not all defects are simply the problem of gestation. Some happen inherently at conception, or even from faulty sperm. It is not always our fault.

Just trying to clarify that before too many more posts come out like these.


59 posted on 09/07/2014 8:12:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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