New Warhorn Media post by Tim Bayly:
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I was at a Continuing Legal Education class earlier this week on legal issues surrounding Artificial Reproductive Technologies (mainly in vitro fertilization). The issues are many and compilcated. But just think about the moral and legal issues when two men have a surrogate carry a baby created by using sperm from one of them and another woman’s egg?
What right does that child to know who gave her brown eyes? What ability does that child have to know her risk for cancer whenever she goes to fill out intake forms at a new physician’s office?
We have legal presumptions that the woman giving birth to the child is the mother, and a legal husband is the father. But surrogacy blows that up. So now courts are looking to contracts and the parties’ intentions to determine parentage.
And that’s not even to take into account the reality that a surrogate is never just a surrogate. Research has shown fetal maternal microchimerism – the two way transfer of genetic material between the unborn child and the mother’s body. These genetic transfers have been observed long after the birth of the child. Before I was born, scientists had observed Y chromosomes from a mother’s male son. How significant is this? In “animal studies, it was found that when a mother rat’s heart was injured, the fetal cells migrated to her heart and differentiated into heart cells, helping repair the injury.” Fetal microchimerism: Your baby will always be a part of you
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Spotify is insanely rich and corrupt The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
This has been a trap for companies for a very long time. “Our customers will never notice that we have cheapened the product.” And they don’t. Until they do.
Schlitz beer has been a business school case study of this phenomenon and its pitfalls for generations now.
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