Nine is Enough?
It’s Dr. Amber here with another question of medical ethics –
So the other day I was discussing prehistoric fertility art – as I do sometimes. My main squeeze – yes Dr. Amber has a squeeze who I’ll refer to here as MS (for main squeeze and not multiple scleroses in this case) – is something of a rock hound and clovis point collector. Ask him about the Anasazi and just pull up a papasan because… my dear reader you will be in for a treat and a half.
Anyhow – MS and I happened to speak over brunch about the Venus of Willendorf? – you ever seen this lady? now that is a real woman – she has more curves than a San Francisco avenue. No face though – men and their fantasy faceless ladies – they all have something – (not telling about MS’s proclivities – but early morning discussion of the Venus of Willendorf should give you some idea).
So imagine how I felt when the following day we admitted a woman pregnant with Nine and ready to pop – Noctomom. That’s what we dubbed her for the press. Now that’s a modern goddess of fertility – and she didn’t even need a man to pull this off – just some nicely donated sperm. And soon ladies, we won’t even need that – we’ll be able to synthesize that stuff using stem cells. Don’t worry MS we’ll still need you to kill the odd spider.
So because of a first class fertility clinic in Fresno there will soon be a full litter of little lads and lasses for the television to fawn over at our little hospice! What’s wrong with that? The more little ones means the more love, right? And love makes the world go round and that’s how you teach the world to sing… right?
However, it turns out Nocto can’t even take care of the kiddlets she already has – (Two others – and adding this nine puts her at an even 11 oh!).
I put it to the forum – what are the ethics here? Can we ban someone from using their eggs and scrambling them with a little love batter for the purpose of having a “man vs food” sized omelet of kids? Or does she have an unalienable right to squeeze out as many little dolls as she wants?
Hey science, if you can come up with ways mothers can be so fertile, seems to me you should be clever enough to find ways for them to support them. Get on it!
Girls don't even need synthetic sperm – parthenogenesis is no longer science fiction! I read about some lizards that can make eggs without males just like in Jurassic Park. Anyone have a link for that?