Moral and ethical questions? Why would anyone have questions? WHy would tampering with nature and the natural selection process be wrong?

This is WRONG on so many levels.
Sure, Bob and Bill have their own biological kid. Where is he/she going to live, grow up, go to school? You don\'t think the majority of people would talk? You think teasing and bullying is bad for kids now? Go ahead, try to live a normal life. HA!

First of all I would like to share that I was laughing heartily when I saw the use of Bert and Ernie as the pic in my email. ROFL :)
But seriously, if there is no female how will the baby be brought to term? Or did I skim this article too fast and miss it?

I think we have enough humans on the planet, and a perfectly capable system of procreation. We don\'t really need to find ways to create even more people on this increasingly crowded planet.

\"It goes against nature/god/whatever.\"
Same argument used against in vitro fertilization, fertility treatments, and - long ago - blood transfusions.

Why is religion always involved in these discussions. Such outdated and antiquated fairytale. This is science here people non-fiction.
Moral and Ethical questions yes but this is really no different to designer babies and IVF. It\'s just the two processes are being combined and further advanced to produce a designer baby for a same sex couple. I\'m not saying I agree how ever.
I do have to question the practice though, surely nature intended us to take chromosomes from a male and female for good reason.
With regards to school yard talk and growing up etc, these children wouldn\'t be branded on the forehead.

@Rocky: \"Moral and ethical questions? Why would anyone have questions? WHy would tampering with nature and the natural selection process be wrong?\"

Is taking your kids to the doctor or wearing eyeglasses tampering with the natural selection process? What about breeding animals? Is taking medicine or receiving a transplant tampering with nature? Seriously... we\'re self-aware creatures and no longer subject to natural selection for the most part. It\'s 26F outside right now and 66F in my room. We adapt our environment to suit US now. In the future we will also use our knowledge to choose the biological (or cyborg) destiny of our species, not leave it to natural selection.

@ DFGoodwin: \"\"This is WRONG on so many levels.\"

\"Sure, Bob and Bill have their own biological kid. Where is he/she going to live, grow up, go to school?\"

Um, anywhere Bob and Bill want to raise their kid?

\" You don\'t think the majority of people would talk? You think teasing and bullying is bad for kids now? Go ahead, try to live a normal life. HA!\"

So Bob and Bill should give in to homophobia and live childlessly (your example would apply to their adopting a child as well). Sorry, gay couples can and do raise children, often adopting the handicapped or ill children that no one else wants because they know better than most what it is like to be \"teased and bullied\". They and their families are a lot stronger than you give them credit for.


@Eletruck \"I think we have enough humans on the planet, and a perfectly capable system of procreation. We don\'t really need to find ways to create even more people on this increasingly crowded planet.\"

So why aren\'t you denying children to the 95% of heterosexuals in the world (\"perfectly capable system of procreation\") but only objecting to the small minority this would be a blessing for? Now if you were saying we have more than enough kids waiting to be adopted, you\'d have a point, and it would apply to those capable of natural procreation as well and really address the population issue.

DFGoodwin: bullying, eh? My 2 dads can beat up your dad!

retarded. Just have a real sex and have kids for f**k sake.

All I am saying is this is wrong. blah, blah, blah... I don\'t care... Its wrong, so very, very wrong. Oh and scary.