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re: re: re: re: Embryo implanting..... Mar. 12th, 2005 9:06pm
Something like that Danny. I talked with a mom I think from Australia if I remember back a long time ago. She posted here years ago and I jumped at the chance to talk to her. She was going to go through the entire process so I emailed her off the board. I was over joyed when I found out this could happen until, I found I asked what they did with the other fetuses that were affected with CAH. What happens if I can remember correctly is this. They make a bunch of embryos from the parents. Then genetically test them all. They find the embryos without the CAH genetic "defect". They implant that healthy embryo into the mother. THEN, I asked what they did with the other embryos that had the defect. Well they discard them. So they say. But what my husband and I were thinking about was gee, what DO they do with them really? I mean who guarantees that they discard them? What if they use them for some weird expieriment? You just never know. But that wasn't what truly bothered me. What bothered me is the fact I would be throwing away my daughter in a sense, that has CAH. Does that make sense? That was MY opinion. I am not speaking for every other person that chooses to have this done. I myself couldn't live with knowing I would be discarding a life that would be as beautiful as my own daughter's. As much as I didn't want to have another child with CAH I couldn't choose that method. That was messin' with God in my opinion. And the only reason I didn't want another child with CAH is not for my own selfish reasons. It was because I never wanted another one of my children to endure a life with CAH. It was too much suffering for me at the time. That was three years ago. Today I think I may be ready to have another child. CAH or not.
I did just read an article in our paper this past summer about a mom that did do this for some other disease. She had it done because her sister had this rare disease that put her through a life of heart ache and pain and suffering. I can't remember what the disease was but it eventually took her life at a young age. This mother knew it was a genetic disease. She wanted to end the disease forever within her gene pool. So they did this procedure. You see the mother was a carrier of this gene. She found out her first daughter is a carrier too. The odds were extremely high to have a child with this fatal disease. That is another reason she had it done. She says her heart aches knowing her first daughter will have to endure the pain of having a child with the fatal disease if she chooses to become a mother one day. But the daughter she just had through this genetic implantation process will not. Ending a disease in a gene pool sounds awful good. But discarding a life that could be as special as my daughter outweighed it that choice more. Perhaps if I was in this other mother's "shoes" I may consider it. I just don't know. Remember the odds of having a child with that particular disease of this mother, was MUCH higher than with CAH. The outcome of their disease was painful and eventually fatal at a young age. I just don't know. I think this is something that is between the parent and God. Or whoever you believe in to be your Spirtitual Guidance.
If you are wondering how that mother's implantation worked for the CAH baby, she never emailed back and I never heard from her again.
