My cousin and his wife are planning to start a family. Both of them carry a gene for "Primordial Dwarfism" and plan on using in vitro fertilization to ensure that they have a Primordial Dwarf. They want to do this to produce a child with a lower "Environmental Impact" and believe that the human race as a whole should deliberately select for various forms of dwarfism to reduce the human race's need for natural resources.
One of their fertility doctors, himself a dwarf, told them, "Six Billion 'Little People' would need a fraction of the food, energy and resources of the giants clomping around today."
I'm trying to figure out if this is "Right" or "Wrong." I know their doctors say it's OK, because their goal is to help the environment, but I'm not too sure.
Are "Little People" Really an evolutionary response to overpopulation???
2007-01-22 05:05:45 · 7 answers · asked by Mike M 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
And no, this is not a "joke." This is a new area of the "Designer Baby" debate that's reared it's head in the last few months.
If you have any doubts, do an online search for "Cara and Gibson Reynolds" to see another couple doing the same thing, just targeting a different form of Dwarfism.
2007-01-23 02:33:36 · update #1
Whoa... this theory is whacked! It is CRUEL to deliberately have a dwarf child. How agonizing and painful for that child. Pollution is so irrelevant to the whole thing! Little peeps use and eat and litter the same as everyone else! That is if they survive past 20 yrs old. Some forms of dwarfism have a low life expectancy. If that's your solution to pollution- wow your cousin is an a--s--s hole.
2007-01-29 17:33:21 · answer #1 · answered by jademoon20 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? If so, I think this is totally wrong. I think that people should not alter their offspring in any way. If you are meant to have kids, then you will have them the way God intended. People are just sick and twisted and only think about themselves.
2007-01-22 13:10:24 · answer #2 · answered by peachy4995 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, they should think about how their child would feel in todays society. plus dwarfs use up just as many resources as normal people.
2007-01-27 01:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont think that is right. Why would they purposely make their childs life harder? They should not be allowed to have this child by the state.
2007-01-22 13:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by nessa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely wrong baby's are god's own creation and no one should interfere with that . I hope they change their mine I can't even imagine some one doing that.
2007-01-27 10:41:46 · answer #5 · answered by gg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This must be a joke.
2007-01-22 23:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is soooooooo wrong
2007-01-28 06:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋