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Human Genetic Modification in Women Seduced by the medical promises of genetic science or fearful of losing reproductive autonomy, many feminists
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Human Genetic Modification in Women Seduced by the medical promises of genetic science or fearful of losing reproductive autonomy, many feminists have been slow to oppose human genetic engineering. But GE is a threat to women, and in the broadest sense a feminist issue. Here's why. If anyone should be cautious of medical techniques to "improve" ordinary reproduction -- as GE purports to do -- it's women. History is full of such "progress," and its serious results. When limbless babies were born to mothers who took thalidomide, the drug was recalled. But the deadly results of another "pregnancy-enhancing" drug, DES, showed up only years later, as cancer in the daughters of DES mothers. The high-estrogens Pill was tested first on uninformed Puerto Rican mothers, some of whom may have died from it. Today's fertility industry takes in $4 billion a year, even though in-vitro fertilization (IVF) succeeds in only 3 of 10 cases....
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