I posted this is another thread but it was somewhat OT. The thread referred to Chinese scientists' mixed success with genetic experiments involving embryos. I want to know if anyone has heard of this practice:
I have a friend whose Chinese GF's job is finding American egg donors and American sperm donors, supervising in vitro fertilization and arranging for a surrogate to gestate the embryos who are then sent to China for adoption.
He hadn't thought much about why a Chinese would want this but mentioned some wanted blond-haired blue-eyed children. I thought maybe as a novelty or status symbol.
Given the expense, they must have money and to me this seemed a lot like building an infant from spare parts to sell abroad. It has no parents, no one with biological or emotional investment in the kid. When I try to envision all this I see the woman getting passports (?) for newborns for export. Though sending the surrogate to China on "vacation" might make more sense.
If that's the case, is anyone adopting babies at all, or could the Chinese be harvesting not only embryos but fetuses - even viable fetuses - for genetic manipulation? It occurred to me maybe they wanted different-race babies to have a wider gene pool to manipulate. Is it sick that my mind goes therem or could rich Chinese really be pining for a blond-haired, blue-eyed child to love? Has anyone else heard of it? I haven't been able to find reports of this elsewhere. It sounds ethically dodgy but I doubt that's much of a barrier.
I have a friend whose Chinese GF's job is finding American egg donors and American sperm donors, supervising in vitro fertilization and arranging for a surrogate to gestate the embryos who are then sent to China for adoption.
He hadn't thought much about why a Chinese would want this but mentioned some wanted blond-haired blue-eyed children. I thought maybe as a novelty or status symbol.
Given the expense, they must have money and to me this seemed a lot like building an infant from spare parts to sell abroad. It has no parents, no one with biological or emotional investment in the kid. When I try to envision all this I see the woman getting passports (?) for newborns for export. Though sending the surrogate to China on "vacation" might make more sense.
If that's the case, is anyone adopting babies at all, or could the Chinese be harvesting not only embryos but fetuses - even viable fetuses - for genetic manipulation? It occurred to me maybe they wanted different-race babies to have a wider gene pool to manipulate. Is it sick that my mind goes therem or could rich Chinese really be pining for a blond-haired, blue-eyed child to love? Has anyone else heard of it? I haven't been able to find reports of this elsewhere. It sounds ethically dodgy but I doubt that's much of a barrier.
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