"Kathleen" > wrote in message
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> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> "Pete C." > wrote in message
>>
>>>>Any child you carry becomes your own.
>>>>
>>>>I understand the legal precedents, I understand the biology and the
>>>>genetics.
>>>>
>>>>And I can understand deciding to cement your emotional bond with a
>>>>chosen life partner by swapping embryos.
>>>>
>>>>How does this differ from chosing to carry the child created by the
>>>>"normal" procreative acts of a hetero couple? "I wanna have your baby".
>>>
>>>Bingo.
>>
>>
>> So the male can donate the egg too? He makes the baby on his own without
>> the assistance of the mother? I think the "bingo" is a miss here. It
>> takes two parts. You may want that man to be the father, but it is still
>> the egg of the mother.
>
> I can't decide if you're being deliberately thick here or not.
>
> A male genetic donor masturbates into a cup.
>

It's a graduated cyliner with a blue plastic funnel. Don't ask.

> An egg donor undergoes months of painful hormone injections with multiple
> side effects, followed by egg harvest via transvaginal needle.
>
> An egg donor's cycles are already synched for implantation. Her decision
> to carry a pregnancy, her own or anybody elses, is an incredible act of
> deliberate grace involving 9 months of her life in addition to the weeks
> required to prime her body for the harvest of her eggs via GIANT FRICKIN
> NEEDLE THROUGH THE VAGINA.
>
> This is not a trivial, frivolous procedure, nor is implantation of the
> embryos. Those who have undergone these procedures describe it as walking
> through fire to make their children.
>
> How dare you pass judgement?
>

Nobody is judging. But after the way you describe it, why would anyone go
through it just to swap embryos? Seems to be not only very expensive but
rather unpleasant as well just to be romantic.

Paul
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