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MP's Back Use of Artificial Sperm for Childless
By Not sure
Mar 11, 2008, 09:45

Candace: I am posting this to point out that research into life and the genetic code is way past what we are told in the USA at least. And I ask the question here, why won't childess couples adopt children in need of parents, instead of going to this kind of extreme?

On an overpopulated world, filled with babies and children without parents, the reasonable and spiritual answer is to either adopt, or have no children and use the adult child free life to do something else for this needy world. It is NOT necessary to have the attitude that one must reproduce children from ones own genetics.

For there is also much genetics in trouble on this planet, and at some point we are going to explore eugenics, because it is a prime directive unto all of mankind to improve his genetic lot. It for man to improve his soul carrier, for he must have a better carrier to match his enlarging spirituality.

Eugenics is NOT about killing people, but folks who have genetic malformations in their DNA should not reproduce the defects, plain and simple common sense that hasn't taken root any too well yet in our society. In time, most parents will test their genetic code before choosing reproduction, when the code is better understood. And perhaps the research will lead to the ability to repair DNA through these types of technologies. So perhaps this concept of "artificial sperm" might become a restorative procedure.

And regards a comment further on in this article, cloning will work for the lady who wants a child, it is not necessary to create both an "artificial sperm and egg" from the person wanting a child, that is a useless statement.

Cloning is not necessarily wrong, it is part of the process that leads to the scientific proof of the existence of the soul, which comes about from studying the genetic code. As with any technology, there is both good and bad, depends on the use of the technology. Is the technology used to destroy or for benefit? It is the normal progression of man on a healthy world to explore all that is there in nature and God. To however intentionally create mal formed beings of mixed soul is not godly, as was demonstrated long ago in Atlantis. 

                

MPs back artificial sperm for childless

· Law change could help cancer victims
· embryo bill fuels impassioned debate

This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday March 09 2008 on p1 of the News section. It was last updated at 10:34 on March 10 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/09/houseofcommons.medicalresearch

MPs are planning a change in the law to allow babies to be conceived from artificial sperm, a move described by opponents as playing God with human DNA.

A furious debate is building over how far to leave the door open to its use in IVF treatment, ahead of a Commons vote due shortly on the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill. The legislation currently allows so-called artificial gametes in research, but imposes a blanket ban on their use in creating a human pregnancy.

The technique involves the creation in a lab of sperm grown from embryonic cells taken from the would-be parent. Although the science is in its infancy, it could ultimately help people rendered infertile by cancer treatment, or fortysomething women who can no longer produce their own eggs, to have children who are genetically related to them.

A cross-party group of MPs led by Liberal Democrat Evan Harris will table an amendment to relax the ban. 'There is no good explanation for not allowing this option for people who have survived cancer and cannot have children,' Harris told The Observer. 'This is a good bill, but the government needs to recognise a few improvements are still needed - such as allowing the use of artificial gametes - before we can say the UK has rational and progressive regulation.'

Dawn Primarolo, the Public Health Minister, confirmed last night that she was considering pleas from MPs and scientists to relax the ban. There was a 'powerful argument' that the new technique could help solve a shortage of sperm donors, she said, but she was sympathetic to arguments that a decision should not be rushed.

So far pregnancies have been successfully created only in mice: of seven born alive, all died prematurely. Experts believe it could be 10 years before a human pregnancy could be safely attempted. But scientists have cultured human sperm using stem cells - immature building blocks containing DNA - taken from bone marrow.

Last night Josephine Quintavalle of the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics said lifting the ban could lead to 'the ultimate incest' of an

individual trying to create both sperm and eggs from their own tissue, making them both mother and father of a child. It was 'quite ridiculous' to rely on the potential of a technique still in its infancy, she said: 'If you turn the focus around from infertile adults and think about what you are creating, you always get the perspective you should adopt. I think we are becoming extremely selfish in our attitude to the children we produce.'

Scientists however argue that research will be halted if there is no chance of being able to use the technique in IVF treatment. Dr Allan Pacey, secretary of the British Fertility Society, said ministers had not properly explained why they wanted a ban: 'I think if you talk to people - take the example of a cancer victim who hasn't got any sperm or eggs because they've had chemotherapy - if you get to the step where we could make it for them, most people will say they can see the benefits,' he said.

Although the bill allows for research Pacey said 'nobody is going to be able to convince a UK funding organisation to fund research in this area' unless it could ultimately be used in treatment.

Harris's amendment would add a so-called regulation-making power to the bill, a device ensuring that if the new technique were proven safe for humans, MPs could nod through a decision allowing it to be used in IVF without a full parliamentary debate and vote. It would also stipulate that the gametes should come from two halves of a couple, ensuring the technique could not be used for a single parent to become both mother and father to the same child.

The approach is expected to be backed by the British Medical Association, the Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Primarolo said she was still consulting on the issue, but added: 'The research can be done, and the issue is whether we legislate to say if it were successful it could proceed. There are some who are saying - and I think these are strong arguments - that it does raise some profound ethical questions.'



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