"Paul M. Cook" wrote:
>
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Pete C. wrote:
> >
> >>> It's not homophobic to say that something is weird,
> >>
> >> Care to tell me what is "weird" about a couple wanting to have children
> >> and using medical technology to overcome fertility issues? It's only
> >> "weird" if you are biased against the couple for some reason i.e. you're
> >> homophobic.
> >
> > It's not weird to want children. It *is* weird to use medical technology
> > to
> > overcome fertility issues, regardless of whether the people involved are
> > straight or ***. Your hyperreactivity shows a bias on your part -- or
> > maybe
> > you just don't know what the word "weird" means. Here, let Merriam-Webster
> > help you: "of strange or extraordinary character"
> >
> > Is it your stance that the practices of female couples using the same
> > sperm
> > donor and swapping embryos occur in a large portion of the population?
> > Female couples don't even comprise a large portion of the population!
> > Therefore, Cat Cora's situation is BY DEFINITION weird. It is in no way an
> > adverse reflection on her sexual preferences; it's a simple and obvious
> > commentary on her outlying status in the demographics.
>
> Exactly. That in vitro process was done for no other reason than to swap
> embryos since each woman had born a child through insemination. The in
> vitro process cost each of them about 10 grand. A mighty pricey way to make
> a baby when it was simply not necessary. That shows me a very conceited,
> narcissistic and self absorbed person. Couples resort to IVF because they
> can't impregnate any other way. Those two had a choice.
>
> That is weird to me.
>
> Paul

Your ignorance is showing now. Perhaps you need to look at what IVF
actually means.

In IVF, eggs and sperm are harvested from the donors, and they are
combined in the test tube and then monitored for proper fertilization
and cell division. When they have progressed in cell division for a
certain period, the embryo is then implanted in the woman who will carry
the child, be it the egg donor or a surrogate.

In very simple terms for your feeble mind, the "embryo swap" involved no
more effort than selecting the test tube with the embryos from the other
egg donor for implantation.