Could you actually do that?
By jray002
@jray002 (16)
United States
June 13, 2008 4:00pm CST
This book was very fascinating but a bit disturbing as well. I don't know that I could conceive a child that I had "engineered". I think it's messing around in God's back yard a bit too much for my liking. Anyone else have ideas on the subject?
3 responses
@PiperCharmed (457)
• Australia
24 Mar 09
i honestly dont have a problem with it. in this novel Anna was loved and if you follow the book carefully she never wanted her sister to die only to have a say about her body which is only fair. who wouldnt choose to save their sister? i know i would
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
5 Sep 08
Some couple was on the news before that sort of did this. The child wasn't genetically engineered, but they had a baby basically just so they could hopefully get some bone marrow and stuff for their other dying daughter. In the real life story though, I'm not sure if they ended up saving their dying daughter or not. It's only a one in four chance that the baby will even be a match. If you were really desperate for a match I guess you could try to get multiples through in vitro or similar technology. But I haven't heard of people actually killing embryos that aren't a match for what they want, yet.
