Hey, Frank!

Very interesting article!

How fascinating that science has decided to follow Aldous Huxley. I remember the image of all those tank babies in Brave New World. He was, of course, talking about clones, but we already have those. How long will it take to put the two together?

I wonder how this technology will affect the psychology of humans thus harvested. Will there be more or fewer sociopaths among them, because they are born with less ingrained experience of the vissicitudes of human nurturing? Will there be fewer musicians, due to the absence of human rhythms experienced during development? Will infants born of such conditions be more trainable, and therefore less rebellious? What a boon to the concept of society as hive that would be!

This also has implications for adoptions. If you can grow your own, why adopt? And if a woman can be told she "must" take care of an embryo transplanted from her body into a tank, I see a whole new source of problems. First: there's the forced surgery issue. Second: there's the lack of maternal emotional attachment and the resulting issue of "failure to thrive" health problems in the infant after birth.

Prediction: If this technology becomes prevelant and the transplantation of embryos by government decree regardless of the wishes of the woman being operated on becomes practice, we will see a new resurgence in interest and traffic in traditional herbal abortifacients, such as were provided by midwives before women's health care was taken over by a medical profession that grew out of battlefield surgery. If seeking conventional medical care means state intervention into personal sovereignty, conventional medical care will be avoided.

Regards--
Mary Anne