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RE: Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 7:53 pm
(June 26, 2015 at 7:01 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: (June 26, 2015 at 6:24 pm)IATIA Wrote: This may be an issue of concern.
What of surrogate mothers or women putting their babies up for adoption? In both cases, the child isn't bonding with the person who will be his or her mother...
What if the unborn child benefits from biorhythms while in utero, such as heartbeat?
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RE: Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 8:03 pm
It looks like a useful medical advance although this is not artificial babies.
Who cares what the religious right thinks? It isn't even a religious issue.
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Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 8:04 pm
It would be cool to have one of these in the living room for 9 months. The whole family could watch it grow. It would be like a super cool fish tank.
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RE: Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 8:17 pm
I don't see a moral question here. The thread cited shows a bunch of idiots arguing that if it's artificial it's not god's way and therefore wrong. I wonder if they feel that way about oxygen tents, vaccines, and antibiotics, not to mention surgery of any kind.
But, I wouldn't want to have one of the first few test babies unless I was infertile. It doesn't seem to take much in the way of drug use or odd eating patterns to mess up a fetus. And it's not just nutrients but also hormones that arrive through the placenta. I suspect there will be early problems. Besides, I actually enjoyed being pregnant.
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RE: Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 8:39 pm
(June 26, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (June 26, 2015 at 8:06 pm)KUSA Wrote: We don't want to piss king Jesus off now do we?
You know I had a really flippant response to this, but upon further reflection, I realized that his non-existence kind of makes the whole question a non-starter.
From that line of reasoning, would that not make a majority of the threads on this forum "non-starters"?
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RE: Artificial Children?
June 26, 2015 at 10:31 pm
(June 26, 2015 at 7:53 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (June 26, 2015 at 7:01 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: What of surrogate mothers or women putting their babies up for adoption? In both cases, the child isn't bonding with the person who will be his or her mother...
What if the unborn child benefits from biorhythms while in utero, such as heartbeat?
What if it does?
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