18 June 2007

Unnatural Selection

For every woman who's ever thought... "Men, who needs them anyway?"
Theoretically, it would enable two lesbians to create a child—not a clone, but a mixture of genes from each parent, just like you or me.

We're not there yet, but we're on the way. Two years ago, British officials authorized human procreation using sperm, nuclear DNA from one woman, and mitochondrial DNA from a second woman.

The categories we've taken for granted—mommy, daddy, people, animals—are blurring.

We're losing our innocence.

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