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1 posted on 09/28/2016 7:26:00 AM PDT by plain talk
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When you try to play God, be very careful...you are playing with dynamite...be careful...
2 posted on 09/28/2016 7:28:59 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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Did you ever see the faces of the children
They get so excited
Waking up on Christmas morning
Hours before the winter sun’s ignited
They believe in dreams and all they mean
Including heaven’s generosity
Peeping round the door
To see what parcels are for free
In curiosity
And Tommy doesn’t know what day it is
He doesn’t know who Jesus was
Or what praying is
How can he be saved
From the eternal grave?


3 posted on 09/28/2016 7:31:28 AM PDT by the_daug
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As far as I know, there are no artificial insemination methods that do not result in the destruction of many embryos. Or, at least, there are unwanted embryos that are either discarded or used for medical experimentation.

Modern fertility services are part of the pro-death culture that is considered socially acceptable among many on the right.

And that’s unfortunate.

Science and the scientific method do not and can not provide guidance for solving the failure of human morality. It must be the other way around. Science must be guided by morality, or it has great destructive potential.


4 posted on 09/28/2016 7:34:06 AM PDT by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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“...UK. But the......... whose Jordanian parents were treated by a US-based team in Mexico, ...”

My head is spinning....wha, who, where are we..??


5 posted on 09/28/2016 7:35:18 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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should fast-forward progress around the world, say embryologists.

Progress?

6 posted on 09/28/2016 7:36:54 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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Fast-forward progress? We haven’t even seen the physiological effects this could have on this child.

Not to mention the wrath of God we are about to endure...


7 posted on 09/28/2016 7:37:58 AM PDT by JenB987 (I'm still an American and 'til they take that away from me there's no day ruined. - El Rushbo)
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Scientific Chimaeras are ethically very risky, but I don’t necessarily have a problem with this particular kind of work. If the parents know that they’ve got a serious genetic problem that would be all but certain to express in their kid, then finding a way to edit it out seems to me to have plenty of benefits, both personal for the parents and utilitarian for the society at large.

On a broader note, this work lays the foundation for work that one day really might help save the human species; due to the way our genetics work, there isn’t a way for the Y chromosome to repair itself. Over time, the Y has dwindled to the point that it’s close to falling apart. This comes at a time when many of our cultures have apparently shifted into self-destruction through one mechanism or another (Japan, greater Europe, the US have dropped to or below replacement level, while much of the Islamic world is inbreeding itself into dysfunction). The upcoming population implosion would only amplify the consequences of a Y failure. Gene therapy like the above could help to restore the Y to where it at least is no longer threatened (though granted, all it does is kick the can down the road).

It’s certainly possible that, if we did nothing, the flexibility of our genes would allow us to adapt to the Y becoming useless, but the upheaval would almost certainly have long-term consequences for us.


8 posted on 09/28/2016 7:38:17 AM PDT by Little Pig
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Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.


10 posted on 09/28/2016 7:44:01 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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You wonder how Soros and Cankles stay alive and evil so much?

Brand spanking new aborted baby organs, blood and now gene splicing to fool Mother Nature.


11 posted on 09/28/2016 7:46:04 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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It takes a village. lol


12 posted on 09/28/2016 7:46:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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Unfortunately there are relatively small steps from correcting something obviously bad, to editing out "less desirable" traits, to engineering the "perfect child".
And in doing so, eliminate the variations that makes us resilient as a species.

16 posted on 09/28/2016 8:01:34 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Another mean to jump generations and disrespecting grandparent, parent link in diviing up cells. This is pure sexual orientation vs. family tie


17 posted on 09/28/2016 8:06:44 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Technology is the biggest disrupter of traditional morality.

The pill upset our sexually morality, hormonal therapy and surgical techniques are upsetting our very gender identity and the existing rules, genetic engineering will provide unimaginable disruptions into our “accepted” rules of behavior.

This will cause a lot of social strife, as traditional morality is upended and the long term consequences of the new “morality” is not yet known.


19 posted on 09/28/2016 8:21:36 AM PDT by aquila48
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Muzzie parents...all that inbreeding must lead to all kinds of genetic trash. Should be a popular procedure for a lot of wealthy muzzies.


23 posted on 09/28/2016 8:41:45 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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Expect a children's book to try to make this more acceptable:

Heather Has Two Mommies and a Daddy.

27 posted on 09/28/2016 8:51:45 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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What do they call them Panda people?.


32 posted on 09/28/2016 9:52:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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Shep Smith and Anderson Cooper decide they want a child together so they both provide sperm samples which are mixed together in a turkey baster, then some poor junky woman was inseminated.
Nine months later they stood at the nursery window, arms around one another admiring their newborn son.

Unfortunately he was bawling his head off.

Concerned, they stop a frazzled nurse who explains to them:
“He does this every time we pull the pacifier out of his bottom.”


36 posted on 09/28/2016 10:27:35 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I’m a very big proponent of technological advancement. This disgusts me.


37 posted on 09/28/2016 10:27:37 AM PDT by Mjreagan
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Is the kid half man, half bear, and half pig?


39 posted on 09/28/2016 12:20:09 PM PDT by jim_trent
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Who’s going to be held to account when these designer babies exhibit horrific health and psychological problems later in life?


40 posted on 09/28/2016 12:21:10 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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