Sexual Reproduction for Same-Sex Couples?
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Sexual Reproduction for Same-Sex Couples?
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#2This strikes me as something that could be revolutionary. Specifically, it stirs up memories of sci-fi novels and movies where advanced races have given up sex and sexual reproduction because it's "Too messy."
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#3Women could actually outgrow their "need" for men in reproducing. Its kind of scary.
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#4This strikes me as something that could be revolutionary. Specifically, it stirs up memories of sci-fi novels and movies where advanced races have given up sex and sexual reproduction because it's "Too messy."
Whereas some enjoy it for that very reason.
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#5Can't wait for fundies to decry this as science overturning the will of god.
The same fundies whose infertile wives undergo medical treatment to enable them to conceive.
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#6Women could actually outgrow their "need" for men in reproducing. Its kind of scary.
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#7Women could actually outgrow their "need" for men in reproducing. Its kind of scary.
Luckily for us evolution won't catch up any time soon :) They still have the same hormones the same brains, etc.
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#8Being able to reproduce without needing functional male/female sex organs, using only skin cells and technology, is an interesting step. It could theoretically apply to same-sex couples, the elderly, children, or people with various disabilities, injuries, or other forms of infertility.
The same-sex focus of this article (specifically, the "OMG this totally defeats an objection to gay marriage" bit in the intro) is an unnecessary politicizing of an otherwise technologically/biologically interesting concept.
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#9A lot of trouble for very little? If its absolutely important for your children to be statistically correlated to you, beyond the 99.9% that all humans are ALREADY correleated? It's been said that adoptive children are sometimes loved too.
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#10It's a little tougher than this article makes it sound. iPS cannot do everything that embryonic stem cells can do, and he cited a paper that has been retracted:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/journal-ed...
(bottom line - the "sperm" created for iPS don't really work as such)
It's still probably coming eventually. And why stop there? Polyamorous n-tuples could have a kid who was a mix of varying proportions of the parents.