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    Daredevil Grandma Hang-Glides, Skydives • Semenya Withdraws From Championships

    New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier

    Abandoned Embryos And The Complexities Of Reproductive Technology

    Nadya Suleman Is The New Poster Girl For Restricting Reproductive Rights

    Georgia Pols Propose Limits On Fertility Procedures

    California Woman Delivers Eight Babies But New Test May Put An End To Multiple Births

    IVF Patients To Other Infertile Females: Keep Your Paws Off Our Embryos
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    Image of KiddyKat KiddyKat
    09/11/09

    In reply to Daredevil Grandma Hang-Glides, Skydives • Semenya Withdraws From Championships
    Sadly, even trying to stay safe and taking every precaution will not always prevent an abduction, rape, or other crime. But maybe there was no crime and Annie will be found safe and sound.
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    Image of alouette alouette
    09/11/09

    @KiddyKat: There's no suspicion of foul play and (despite my first thoughts going to domestic) her fiance is fully involved. But our city can be scary in places, especially the area she disappeared from. I just hope everything turns out ok. I know the police have been in overdrive since Wednesday.
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    Image of Casquivana Casquivana
    09/11/09

    In reply to Daredevil Grandma Hang-Glides, Skydives • Semenya Withdraws From Championships
    Her coach says she's "not feeling well."
    No shit. I wonder if you can feel well when everybody is wondering about your sex, making nasty comments about it and questioning if you deserved your win.
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    Image of IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
    09/11/09

    In reply to Daredevil Grandma Hang-Glides, Skydives • Semenya Withdraws From Championships
    OMG must get to The Met! Any NYC area Jezzies wanna go pretend to be sophisticated and understand art?
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    09/11/09

    @IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: I am a NYC Jezzie and I majored in Art History..I can pretend to be a tour guide :)
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    09/11/09

    @IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: I am ashamed to admit that I have lived in NYC for 4 years andI have not been to the Met yet.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    09/11/09

    @boobookitteh: Get thee...there! It's great!
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    09/11/09

    @boobookitteh: Oh my god, how is that possible? The Met is my favorite place, ever, so I'm very biased, but you should definitely go! I was thinking about going tonight for a glass of wine and art, but it's getting to be too late.
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    Image of IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
    09/11/09

    @boobookitteh: I've lived in the area (I'm in Jersey, but won't admit to it once I exit the tunnel) almost my entire life and I've never been.
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    09/12/09

    @IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: There's a whole iTunesU podcast available for free about this painting, if you want to cram before going.
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    Image of dirtybee dirtybee
    09/11/09

    In reply to Daredevil Grandma Hang-Glides, Skydives • Semenya Withdraws From Championships
    Shit....you guys, that Susie Mann story brought me to tears.
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    Image of whoneedslight whoneedslight
    09/11/09

    @dirtybee:
    Not only that, but to do all of those things with the particular kind of cancer she has? I don't even like to leave the comfort of my own bathroom when things get crazy down there.
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    Image of sciencerules sciencerules
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    I am so thrilled about this I could cry. Not only for the huge potential it has, but also for what it means about this administration's attitudes towards science. This is on a par with acknowledging that atheists are American too in Obama's inaugural speech.


    /choked up

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    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    freely given by a well-informed donor


    Women can't be well-informed! That's silly!

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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    Those poor, poor cell-babies.
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    Image of AthertonMerriweather AthertonMerriweather
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    Curing disease? Well, there goes population control.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/07/09

    @AthertonMerriweather: and there goes the CBO estimates for health reform.
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    Image of GlinCastleGirl GlinCastleGirl
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    This is so great. My husband and I wanted to donate our leftovers to stem cell research but at the time we discussed it with our doctor, it wasn't allowed. Probably won't have any to donate now, but I'm very happy it's finally an option.
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    07/07/09

    @GlinCastleGirl: We didn't have any left over, but would have donated them once we were done. I donated my immature eggs to a study.
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    Image of PrarieMuffin PrarieMuffin
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    No! We can't do this! Now we're treating a cluster of cells like . . . a cluster of cells. And we can't have that. POTENTIAL FOR HUMAN LIFE MUST ALWAYS TRUMP ACTUAL HUMAN LIFE!
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    Image of spunkay spunkay
    07/07/09

    @PrarieMuffin: This argument has always intrigued me. What about semen? No one ever seems to get up in arms about mansauce when it comes to "potential for life"
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    Image of RainbowBrite RainbowBrite
    07/07/09

    @spunkay doesn't have a middle name: Well technically no one is talking about eggs this way either. It's only when they're fertilized that anyone gives a crap about them.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/07/09

    @spunkay doesn't have a middle name: Some people do think it is a sin to spill semen on the earth, aka, waste semen, aka masturbation or any sex that is not intended to result in a pregnancy.
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    Image of pax pax
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    "Freely given by a well-informed donor": Wait, you mean women can make a rational, informed choice where SNOWFLAKE BEHBEHS are concerned? OMG call the press!!!
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    07/07/09

    @pax: An embryo means a man was involved too and the man usually also has a say over what happens to embryos left over from IVF (if it isn't an anonymous sperm donor).
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    07/07/09

    In reply to New Rules Will Make Stem Cell Research Easier
    But it still has to be for IVF, right? I can't just fertilize some eggs and give 'em to science?
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    Image of RubyPenelope RubyPenelope
    06/23/09

    In reply to Abandoned Embryos And The Complexities Of Reproductive Technology
    Its things like this that kind of disturb me about in-vitro and the whole infertility big business. I don't begrudge people the children they so badly want but I can't help feeling that the creation of life this way ends up treating humans cavalierly. That women harm their bodies and suffer emotionally to achieve a biological child. I feel like if so much value wasn't placed on that then women wouldn't be willing to go to such extremes and we wouldn't have to wonder about what to do with frozen embryos that no longer hold any value to the people so willing to create them. I'm not faulting anyone who goes this route, I just feel like we accept it as a way of way of life now and I'm not so comfortable with that.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    06/23/09

    @RubyPenelope: I feel the same. I don't fault the individuals who pursue this route, but nonetheless it has never made sense to me. If I decided to have children and found that I was infertile, the first thought in my head would be adoption - but that's because my family has first-hand experience with adoption so it's very ordinary to me. My dad was adopted, so I don't share DNA with his parents, but that didn't make them any less my grandparents, or him any less their child. DNA is just a genetic lottery - it's a lifetime caring for a child that makes them yours. I really wish we would invest half the money that goes into reproductive medicine and crazy fertility treatments into making adoption affordable and feasible for more families.
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    Image of Deaf Mute Deaf Mute
    06/22/09

    In reply to Abandoned Embryos And The Complexities Of Reproductive Technology
    "Donating to another couple is the least popular option."


    Why?


    You don't want the embryo, why not let some couple have it?


    I just don't understand why it is less popular than discarding them.

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    Image of RustyHeadedGirl RustyHeadedGirl
    06/22/09

    @Deaf Mute: The reason I've seen cited a few places (I've done research into egg donation, as a donator cause I'm poor and I'm more than happy to help people have kids) is the idea of accidental incest. That if someone else adopts their embryos, their children might one day encounter this individual who is their genetic sibling and totally hit it off and they have to find out that it's an incestuous relationship and that's icky.


    It's not 100% rational, but I can understand it.

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    06/22/09

    @RustyHeadedGirl thinks everything just tasted purple for a ...: I think for a lot of people it is less the fear of accidental incest and more the feeling of having a child out there and not knowing anything about it, or even knowing if it exists. The egg might result in a pregnancy, might not, but you wouldn't be informed either way. So you would always be looking at people with kids and wondering. I wouldn't want that in the least.


    And donating it to research is a way to contribute to life saving medicine.

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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    06/23/09

    @RustyHeadedGirl thinks everything just tasted purple for a ...: But technically adoption has the same problem.
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    06/23/09

    @Deaf Mute: My honest, and unkind, opinion is that people who are so invested in the idea of a biological child to perpetuate their DNA see their genetic material as so special and proprietary that they couldn't bear to have a child born of that DNA raised by someone else. But then, as I come from a family where adoption is openly talked about (my dad was adopted), I have never understood the burning desire to go to extraordinary lengths to have a child composed of one's own DNA if there is any possibility of adopting instead. (I do realize that adoption has its own issues and expenses, and is becoming increasingly difficult.)
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    06/22/09

    In reply to Abandoned Embryos And The Complexities Of Reproductive Technology
    Wait - I bet all the women who assholed around outside of Dr. Tiller's clinic the other day would be glad to donate their bodies to give those precious lives a chance! And the men at the clinic, why I just get they are willing to give their daughters and wives up to the cause.
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    06/23/09

    @BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): That was my exact thought while watching Stewart interview Huckabee. If all these embryos are 'real people', why aren't the pro-lifers volunteering their uteruses.
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