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David Weigel | August 18, 2006

Ronald Bailey juggles the oval-shaped moral issues dominating the debate over fertility services.

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Larry A|8.18.06 @ 4:19PM|#

The Center's name evidently refers to the first family to use surrogacy services. The Bible tells the story of the patriarch Abraham who, at his wife Sarah's urging, had a son by his wife's Egyptian slave-girl Hagar.

Ishmael and Isaac? Like that story had a happy ending.

|8.18.06 @ 4:57PM|#

Larry A: It's not over yet--it still could end happily for their descendants.

Have a good weekend.

|8.18.06 @ 8:53PM|#

this should help address the shortage-of-people problem.

Mark Lambert|8.19.06 @ 6:58AM|#

As usual, Ron Bailey is one of the few (and perhaps the only) public commenters on these topics to understand what's going on. The calls to ban such new things usually come from ignorant folks who draw false analogies. And I bet that most if not all of them had no problem having children. Like most new technological or scientific or methodological developments in reproduction, there will be screams of outrage and calls for banning or regulation from ignorant folks. One only has to look back at history, and see that the same sort of criticisms were spewed forth when the first "test tube baby" was born in the late 1970s. As a related aside, Click on my name-link below and it'll take you to the story that the first Test Tube Baby, Louise Brown, is now pregnant.

|8.19.06 @ 9:59PM|#

Yup, theres a people shortage. OTOH, might Science have blazed a trail where at last two Wongs can make a white?