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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Embryos as Property?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.104829.21860@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <nyikos.724958698@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <lairdb.725057848@crash.cts.com> <Bzpx2C.87v@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:48:29 CST
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- In article <Bzpx2C.87v@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >The first question is what is the important part of the content of the
- >fertilized ovum. A fair analogy would be that of aa photograph; here the
- >non-nuclear part of the protoplasm corresponds to the film or plate, and
- >this is contributed solely by the mother. The nuclear part is in small
- >part the mitochondrial DNA and some related material; this may be
- >compared to the emulsion. While these are essential, it is generally
- >recognized that the important part is the effect of the exposure to light,
- >and this corresponds to the chromosomes, which are contributed in equal
- >number, and roughly equal content, by the two parents, barring certain
- >accidents which cannot be ascertained at this point. The situation is
- >unusual in this respect; their contributions to the genetic material are
- >necessarily almost equal.
- >
- >Then there is the problem of carrying the child. This corresponds, in
- >the photographic analogy, to the developing and printing process. Again,
- >the photo shop is paid for this, but has no rights from this to the
- >photograph.
-
- To whom do those rights usually go? The owner of the camera?
- Next analogy.
-
- > Nor does the photo shop have the right to destroy the
- >photograph. While a child is not a photograph, and the analogy is
- >not perfect, it does point out the problems of joint rights of the
- >biological parents, at least until these are relinquished.
- >
- muriel
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