What is the situation of a woman implanted with another woman's egg fertilized by her own brother's sperm...as reported yesterday.
Thirdson,
Hadn't heard of that one yet. But haven't watched much news lately.
We as a human society have set the rules for what we think is right and wrong. These rules basically come from religions influence, either christian or pagan.
My first reaction to this was "ewh" and I though about it for a second and then wondered why I still have that old way of thinking. My mind went to incest. But there is no incest involvment. But, I thought, she is carrying her brothers baby as her own. But I thought again, and realized that she is carrying the life, not creating it.
We, in this new age of technology, need to readjust our thinking on matters. This woman obviously can't have her own children the "natural" way. So, with the use of technology she is able to have a child and have it grown in her and deliver it.
I never had a problem in my mind with a sister donating her egg, or a mother carrying her daughters baby for her, both of these things have been done time and again. So why do I have a problem with this woman's brother donating his sperm with another womens egg, so that his sister can become a mother? Genetically, the argument of incest and defects in an incestuously concieved shild aren't there.(The only reason you can't marry your siblings or first cousins, like Adam and Eve's children did, and the only reason that it is religously wrong.) So now that I gave myself a good talking to, on being automatically prejudice to a new idea before I considered the facts, I say there is nothing wrong with this, and I wish the mother-to-be happiness!
Lindy
