DOF: Got to get over our wierdness about technology – especially when it enhances family life and brings people together.

Couldn’t agree more. This is just an issue of being afraid of what technology can do, and really makes little sense. Too bad.

Sometimes it’s dark out there on the front lines of this. But, in my mind, it’s an interesting place to be. Ethics becomes less of a spectator’s sport and more of a call to ‘jump in the game’.

Got to get over our wierdness about technology – especially when it enhances family life and brings people together.

Several organizations got together to answer the question of what should happen with the embryos that are left over after a couple had achieved their family goals. They could be donated to research, discarded or donated to other couples looking to use embryos they themselves can produce for whatever reason.

This should definitely be up to those that no longer have a need for the embryo. It would be great if they donated it to science, but the decision needs to be theirs and theirs alone without interference from the government or a company. I could imagine the complications arising from allowing another couple to use it.

Its a very interesting topic though, and one that could make it hard for a future child, almost like an identity crisis. But to me it’s not a matter of who the biological father is, but who gave birth to the child, who raised the child, and who cared for the child. This should always outweigh the importance of anything else.

To me, as long as the parents are qualified to raise a child (I.E. they wont kill, rape, abuse, or any other horrible fill in) they are fine by my vote. I see this just as an extension of adoption.