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View from the Foot of the Tower: Stemming the tide
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There have been some very complex and ethically difficult cases arising from artificial insemination and disputes afterwards in the last 2 years. A development in science might lead to some even more difficult legal issues.
Randall Monroe’s excellent book
What if posits a number of peculiar questions and provides answers to them.
One of the 'What if' questions is the theoretical possibility that stem cell research might advance sufficiently such that a stem cell taken from a person’s bone marrow can be altered into becoming a sperm cell. The 'What if' question is – 'what if a woman used her own stem cell to become a sperm cell and then used that sperm cell to impregnate herself?'
This is not possible yet but it could be in the future.
Scientists have already been able to turn stem cells taken from males into sperm cells. Randall Monroe sets out in very zingy and cogent...
Read the full article here.
