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To: Carol who wrote (15168)	1/12/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Morning, Carol! Big question you posed there about assisted procreation. Spouse&I often wondered how we would rise to the challenge of infertility. We've seen the news articles about the contortions some couples will perform in order to fan the spark of pregnancy in their bodies. The cost and effort are terrific. Faced with that choice, we would have looked hard at adoption. The thing about adoption that I find so amazing is what it costs. This is one place where I see Gov't regulation as a plus perhaps. Adopting parents are performing a service, and charging them deep five figures for a baby smacks of the slave trade to me. Here's a place where I see a real catch-up opportunity in our society's struggle toward... civilization, whatever that is. Cloning. They did it on a sheep, with about 280 false starts. The failure ratio makes this not a viable option for people. Ethical questions aside, the wear&tear on the prospective mama is more than a uterus can take. So for now, I don't see cloning as a realized advance in human medicine. One day, the spinoff technologies from all this cloning action will be our collective salvation. Right now we are in dark times, genepoolwise. The social programs of the last few generations have effectively interrupted natural selection: survival is now also the privilege of the obviously unfit. Now, our family's got arthritis and neurodegenerative diseases in our bloodlines. In caveman days, these weren't a problem, what with folks were grandparents (or leopard chow) by twenty-six. Now however these are real problems. I look forward to the day when gene docs can edit out these style errors in the family DNA, and maybe drop in a little Cream of Kevin Sorbo. Of course, if I were married to someone who looked like Laura San Giacomo, I'd put a fresh one on the barbie every ten years. Taht way, when the old copy was startin' to sag, shoot her (uhm, maybe recycle would sound more savory) and launch the crisp new upgrade! ;-)