Perhaps I should change the title to The Extinction of the Female Continues Apace. (Quick, girls, buy guns! Lots and lots and lots of guns!)
Naaaaaaaaaah, no need to worry, our moral and intellectual superiors are watching out for us.
Brave New World? We should be so lucky...
Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts - The Old Gray Whore
Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in reproductive technology is on the horizon — and it promises to be far more controversial than in vitro fertilization ever was.
Within a decade or two, researchers say, scientists will likely be able to create a baby from human skin cells that have been coaxed to grow into eggs and sperm and used to create embryos to implant in a womb.
The process, in vitro gametogenesis, or I.V.G., so far has been used only in mice. But stem cell biologists say it is only a matter of time before it could be used in human reproduction — opening up mind-boggling possibilities.
With I.V.G., two men could have a baby that was biologically related to both of them, by using skin cells from one to make an egg that would be fertilized by sperm from the other. Women with fertility problems could have eggs made from their skin cells, rather than go through the lengthy and expensive process of stimulating their ovaries to retrieve their eggs.
“It gives me an unsettled feeling because we don’t know what this could lead to,” said Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell researcher at the University of California, Davis. “You can imagine one man providing both the eggs and the sperm, almost like cloning himself. You can imagine that eggs becoming so easily available would lead to designer babies.”
“There are groups out there that want to reproduce among themselves,” said Sonia Suter, a George Washington University law professor who began writing about I.V.G. even before it had been achieved in mice. “You could have two pairs who would each create an embryo, and then take an egg from one embryo and sperm from the other, and create a baby with four parents.”
Three prominent academics in medicine and law sounded an alarm about the possible consequences in a paper published this year.
Still, how soon I.V.G. might become a reality in human reproduction is open to debate.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it was five years, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 25 years,” said Jeanne Loring, a researcher at the Scripps Research Institute, who, with the San Diego Zoo, hopes to use I.V.G. to increase the population of the nearly extinct northern white rhino.
“People are a lot more complicated than mice,” said Susan Solomon, chief executive of the New York Stem Cell Foundation. “And we’ve often seen that the closer you get to something, the more obstacles you discover.”
I.V.G. is not the first reproductive technology to challenge the basic paradigm of baby-making. Back when in vitro fertilization was beginning, many people were horrified by the idea of creating babies outside the human body. And yet, I.V.F. and related procedures have become so commonplace that they now account for about 70,000, or almost 2 percent, of the babies born in the United States each year. According to the latest estimate, there have been more than 6.5 million babies born worldwide through I.V.F. and related technologies.
The process strikes some people as inherently repugnant.
“There is a yuck factor here,” said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University. “It strikes many people as intuitively yucky to have three parents, or to make a baby without starting from an egg and sperm. But then again, it used to be that people thought blood transfusions were yucky, or putting pig valves in human hearts.”
Brilliant, Art! Some people used to think gassing Jews or shooting Armenians or eating babies was not only "yucky", but morally abhorrent AND practically unimaginable. Fuckin' dumbass.
Whatever the social norms, there are questions about the wisdom of tinkering with basic biological processes. And there is general agreement that reproductive technology is progressing faster than consideration of the legal and ethical questions it raises.
Some bioethicists take the position that while research on early stages of human life can deepen the understanding of our genetic code, tinkering with biological mechanisms that have evolved over thousands of years is inherently wrongheaded.
“Basic research is paramount, but it’s not clear that we need new methods for creating viable embryos,” said David Lemberg, a bioethicist at National University in California. “Attempting to apply what we’ve learned to create a human zygote is dangerous, because we have no idea what we’re doing, we have no idea what the outcomes are going to be.”
TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.
Hunter,
Does it seem strange to you that American nationalists, are the only nationalists in the world that say, don’t support our candidate, support Republicans?
I know nothing will be learned from this, WN will be back supporting Republicans next election and the ones after that. Makes me seriously think that WN is a scam set up by Republicans, to get dopey Whites to campaign for them for FREE.
Also on this tour– ramping up hostility to “extremist” and “terrorist” Iran while playing best friends with the Saudis, who provided the manpower for 9-11, funding for ISIS and Wahhabi mosques throughout the world and more. (Of course Iran is hostile to Israel and Saudi Arabia is not.)
Mestigoit
May 22, 2017 at 6:12 pm
“An astonishing set of photos. Could you imagine Ike, Churchill, or any other leader of a major power in the past donning a yarmulke, kissing that wall and pledging eternal fealty to these creeps?”
Brother Nathaniel says its a ritual where they’re pretending to have sex with a goddess who lives behind the wall. lol
Trump was a gamble. He talked like a civic nationalist. He was voted for not because he was a Republican, but because he promised the Wall, suspension of immigration from Muslim countries, and other “moderately nationalist” policies. I think you’ve got the wrong end of the stick here.
Also, voting for him wasn’t useless — his campaign really kicked the lid off the Uniparty, exposed how much the press is just a creature of the Vampiric Globalist State, and allowed disenfranchised Whites to exercise their political muscle together for the first time a long time.
You can sit here and OD on Black Pills if you want, but Trump’s campaign and election already served some major nationalist purposes. Another thing it did was rile up the Left into a rabid frenzy that still hasn’t abated — they’re showing their true colors, blurting out their actual purposes, because they’re so ticked off. Never interrupt the enemy when he’s making a mistake — and if Trump gets them spun up so much that they throw caution to the winds — which appears to be the case — then he’s worth it unless he turns directly in Hillary Clinton.
Seems like all the leaders of the West are shabbas goys.
At http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2016/10/14/nevertrumps-historically-unprecedented-stab-in-the-back/comment-page-1/#comments is an Occidental Dissent post dated October 14, 2016, and headed “#NeverTrump’s Historically Unprecedented Stab In The Back.” Therein, our host, Mr. Wallace, wrote as follows:
“As I sensed at the time, we were watching a major historical event unfold on Saturday when 1/3 of the #NeverTrump Senate repudiated Trump …
[Quote from Atlantic article including the following: “By comparison, only a handful of GOP senators rejected Barry Goldwater in 1964; former President Dwight Eisenhower, despite private doubts, publicly campaigned for him. Even in 1912, when Roosevelt launched an independent candidacy, the Republican leadership remained more unified behind Taft than their modern-day counterparts are behind Trump.”]
“To my knowledge, nothing of this scale has ever happened before in American history on the eve of a national election. The #NeverTrump stab in the back was bigger than TR’s revolt that led to the Bull Moose Party in 1912.”
In response to that, I commented as follows:
“These comparisons are meaningless. The earlier events–with Goldwater and T. Roosevelt–were true political events, involving disputed visions of America and of its place in the world. Trump is just an oddity, who has lodged himself, formally, as the Republican nominee but is not a real political figure. This is historic only in the way that, say, the crashing of an asteroid into Earth is historic. It can’t be ignored, but the only thing it reveals is that unusual things happen.”
In response to that comment of mine, one of Occidental Dissent’s gracious Southern commenters wrote as follows:
“Sure, pal. Trump is an oddity? No, Trump is the result of the liberal/left policies of the last 60 or so years. He is an imperfect vessel but he is the guy who has emerged, like it or not, to represent the real America. … Trump is the only person in my lifetime who has had the stones to take the national stage and call the Democrats, the Progressives, the RINO’s and all the rest out, for what they really are. And you sniff that he is an “oddity”. You are the oddity, Bonaccorsi, the poindexter sitting in his overstuffed chair who just does not get it. This is not just another election. if you do not understand that then for God’s sake go in the bathroom and hang yourself, because you won’t like what is coming down the pike.”
May 22, 2017 at 7:01 pm
“@RB No, nationalists in the USA simply have no viable candidates. Lesser of two evils”
That is the exact talking point they repeated on Stormfront, to ignore the Pro White candidate and to support the Zionist one. They refuse to use the White Genocide talking point, nor use anti-White, but they use memes to ignore Pro White candidates and support Zionist ones.
Yesterday someone over there with a low post count, posted a single comment. “All White Nationalist websites are run by AshkeNAZI”.
You know what? The incompetence of a group that ignore their own, and supports their biggest enemy, is something I find really hard to believe. The conspiracy looks far more likely.
They will never have a viable candidate, because they never support their own candidates. Not now, not ever.