RE: Genetic Modification
September 16, 2012 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2012 at 11:09 am by Ben Davis.)
Typical Daily Fail fearmongering:
Nowhere in the article does it try to humanise the women who needed this treatment in order to be able to conceive; like they're doing something wrong by even needing the treatment. Nowhere in the article does it try to humanise the babies; new, living, breathing people who now have lives to live thanks to this treatment. Instead the article falls prey to it's own accusation of treating people like objects.
The success of these treatments mean that certain women can now have babies when they previously couldn't and that's all. The potential for the sci-fi adjustments which the article intimates are not the results of this research but rather the studies into understanding which components of our DNA describe which embryonic development-functions. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous in the extreme and obvious fearmongering.
The Fail regularly opposes improvements which help/support disadvantaged and/or vulnerable groups and the application of a little empathy blows the meaning of this article right open. This type of reporting just makes me angry!
Quote:30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments...makes it sound like scientists were experimenting on babies.
Quote:...a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists... Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans... It is a further and very worrying step down the wrong road for humanity....all negative language, designed to provoke a particular response.
Nowhere in the article does it try to humanise the women who needed this treatment in order to be able to conceive; like they're doing something wrong by even needing the treatment. Nowhere in the article does it try to humanise the babies; new, living, breathing people who now have lives to live thanks to this treatment. Instead the article falls prey to it's own accusation of treating people like objects.
The success of these treatments mean that certain women can now have babies when they previously couldn't and that's all. The potential for the sci-fi adjustments which the article intimates are not the results of this research but rather the studies into understanding which components of our DNA describe which embryonic development-functions. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous in the extreme and obvious fearmongering.
The Fail regularly opposes improvements which help/support disadvantaged and/or vulnerable groups and the application of a little empathy blows the meaning of this article right open. This type of reporting just makes me angry!
Sum ergo sum
