DOH!
Posted on 08/21/2011 11:42:57 AM PDT by pillut48
THIS month brought news that could alter the landscape of American pregnancy.
Tests using DNA to determine a fetus’s sex were shown to be remarkably accurate, able to tell with 95 percent certainty as early as seven weeks into pregnancy, if a woman is carrying a boy or girl. The tests, which detect the fetus’s DNA in a mother’s blood or urine, are available in drugstores and online, and reports about their accuracy are likely to increase their popularity.
But the tests also raise ethical questions: whether couples will abort fetuses of an unwanted sex — as has happened in China and India, where boys now outnumber girls. The possibility discomfits many, and is also providing fuel for anti-abortion politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I agree.
DOH!
But it is critical that we know the gender so we can order the correct paint for the baby’s room.
//sarcasm off
Genetic defect detection? I can *almost* understand that. But gender bias? That’s just nuts.
We went through a scare during the first three months for one of our daughters. The OB/GYN told us we should wait until the results of the amnio before we decided whether or not to terminate.
It was at that second—I can remember it as if it were an hour ago—that I realized I was pro-life, without any reservation.
This is just stupid.
You are right, the NY Times never is right
You will also notice how they dehumanize children into little animals that can’t help but have sex. They wish. Perverts.
NEA and Planned Parenthood thinks girls need orgasms by 10 while the psych doctors of the APA thinks chid molestation isn’t so bad for kids. Then there is Hollyweird and publik skoolz
From the Fertility Institutes of LA web site:
How does it work?
Several eggs are extracted from the mother by our doctors, sperm is supplied by the father. The father's sperm is used to fertilize the mother's eggs in our lab. After 3 days, several 8-cell embryos will have developed. Our doctor-scientist specialists examine the genetic makeup of the embryos, screening for both genetic diseases and desired gender. Healthy embryos of the gender you desire are implanted in the mother. Any additional healthy embryos may be cryo-frozen for future use. Gestation and birth take place as normal.
So, I'm thinking the scene from Gattaca. That seems to be a specialty of their clinic.
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There used to be baby-shower games of dangling the woman’s wedding ring on a string over a Bible (I think there was even a specific chapter/verse) and if it swung clock-wise, or counter-, that’s how you could tell. Another was to dump some pee in a container with Drano, and if it turned one color, that’s a boy, and some other color was for a girl. Now that everyone can tell from the sonogram, those games have disappeared, as has my knowledge of the details.
Re the real testing, a friend of mine was told that one of her test numbers was so high, that she had to be carrying multiples, and that all of them had spina bifida. Being pro-life, there was no question of what she’d do (some in-laws saw it differently) and she delivered one perfect little girl. I wouldn’t even bother having those tests, unless it was something that could be corrected pre-birth.
I am suspecting the comment has to do with figuring out which embryoes grown in a test tube should be implanted. Don’t know that...just a thought.
To what levels of evil have we sunk? God help us.
The only reason we had the test was to make sure we would be prepared—not our faith—but medically. We wanted to make sure if there WAS a problem, we would be able to address it quickly and in the best available facility.
Prior to that, I was a typical 20 something, wishy-washy, go with the flow, “choice” person. At that second, it was finally clear to me: That was MY daughter they were talking about it. The fundamental natural instinct to protect her and provide for her took me a little by surprise. But, it felt right. And it felt good.
I am not evangelical by any stretch, but I know I have convinced some of my daughters’ friends with that story.
It looks like they’re talking about a couple of different things in this article. One would be the blood test at 7 weeks, which is obviously after implantation.
The other is the in-vitro procedure by which embryos are tested in the lab before implantation. I think that’s the one “some ethicists” are saying is okay, because they consider the child simply a lab specimen at that point.
You are not wrong. 24 to 72 hours after fertilization, the fertile ovum implants in the uterine lining. Basically it depends how far up the fallopian tube the egg is when it is fertilized.
(One of the reasons why the rhythm method is not all that accurate - sperm can survive up to three days (usually 2) in a womans body, so it can still be viable when the egg is released.)
But 7 weeks is a retarded and weak apologist thing to say. By 7 weeks you already have cellular differentiation, which means the ball of cells is well on it’s way to being human, if it is not already.
Now, I am not gonna get into the “is a fertile egg a human being and where is the borderline” cause I honestly don’t know, and, to be blunt, don’t really care. I have my opinion, other people have different ones.
Something to remember...implantation is the actual moment an embryo burrows into the mother’s uterus and starts relying on her life for it’s own.
The word “implanted” seems to be used wrong a lot...referring to when embryos after IVF are RETURNED to the uterus where they float around a bit before IMPLANTING in the uterus lining...two different things. Just returning embryos to the uterus does not guarantee that pregnancy will occur.
Forget gender.
I’m patenting a product which will predict political orientation.
The woman has to pee on it, of course. Like usual.
Then the new technology kicks in to look at the baby’s DNA, cross-check with database of markers and empirical tendencies, account for moon phase at birth, note whether the doctor is a nice Jewish boy, hot link to the Bat Computer I bought at Adam West’s garage sale and spit out the answer in the form of a riddle:
“Who is the one,
that even when little,
is perverted enough,
to enjoy someone’s piddle?”
Correct Robin... A LIBERAL.
So, check the strip ladies.
If it’s a smiley face that appears, then reach for the RU486 because a Leftist parasite has attached itself to you.
If it’s a frown, then you’ve got a good conservative that doesn’t like getting pissed upon. Eat properly and save the pills.
For those who don’t want the bother of the pee thing or who, for some reason, don’t enjoy knowingly killing likely/probably/maybe liberal babies... we have a new product:
The RU4OBAMA pill.
It’s a one-a-day. It uses similar DNA/Bat Computer technology to determine political orientation. But then, it gleefully and secretly releases it’s poisons ONLY when a fetal lib is detected. Relieving the would-be parasitic host from even the knowledge of the probably necessary killing.
Don’t worry your pretty little heads about the killing. Go out. Try out some guys. You’ll get (or rather stay) pregnant when you finally hook up with one whose genes can pass the otherwise fatal RU4OBAMA test.
For an extra ten bucks you can get the Baby DNA to Daddy Phone# Conversion App. Pee on the strip and one of those alien-looking product info codes will appear. If you just see three lemons, then re-dump the guy and kill the baby today. Otherwise, fire up our app and take a photo of the emerged image code.
You will then be taken to the Pee Daddy Portal. It will have everything you want to know about your cohort. Click on the “Set the Hook” tab to forward test results, freeze his accounts, tweet the image of your dad cleaning his shotgun, and register at Tiffany’s. Click the “Hope They’re Not Friends” tab to see the list of other ladies, who have... ah.. “Liked” this guy. And who have the pee strip to prove it.
It all sounds crazy and heartless.
And a perfectly legal use of Moms’ license to kill.
Ask a liberal whether it should be.
I remember something similar. The "indicator" was a sewing needle hanging from a piece of thread, held just above the "pulse point" on the inside of the new mother's wrist. Same deal with the CW/CCW swing. As I recall it was about 50% accurate.
Regards,
GtG
BTTT. Anyone thinking that those tests are worthy anything needs to read your comment.
The value depends on the specific test and what it shows. The blood test for spina bifida was notable for false positives - my doctor in the late 90s told me not to bother with it - but there are other diagnostic tools now that are more accurate. Surgery can be done for infants with spina bifida in the womb, in some cases, so it is worth pursuing if more than one indicator points in that direction.
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