** Woman, 62, bears brother’s IVF child **
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2167552%5E401,00.html
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I’m just a bit confused as to where to start with this. Can anyone else make sense of it?
It doesn’t look like anybody else wants to take a shot at this woolly, so I guess I’ll have at it.
The egg that was carried to term was supplied by the woman in California, so the child is not in any danger of any of the effects of inbreeding AFAIK. That’s good.
However, sister carried the child to term, so whether this would legally constitute incest depends upon if the law considers sister or egg donor the mother.
To my mind, sister was nothing more than a delivery mechanism for brother and egg donor’s baby, and as such, did not subject baby to any greater danger than she would have had she been any other 62 year old woman who was not brother’s sibling, therefore, no harm, no foul.
I don’t consider it any more unethical than if the surrogate mother had not been related. I don’t make moral judgements, and I have no idea how this will play out legally.
Does that help?
It’s pretty sick, though, that they just wanted to have the kid to get the money. God forbid the cousins should have at it. I’d hate to be that child.
Now as for the question…
Would I do it for six million? Hmmm. Not if it were my brother, no. That’d just be odd. I know there’s no interbreeding or anything, but still. I might do it if it was someone else entirely, and it was a lot more money. Just so long as I was getting the most out of my experience. 
(I’m not cheap!)
Would I impregnate a 62 year old woman? Hell, you’re practically describing my social life!
No, but I’d take $3 million to impregnate a 31-year-old woman.
For 6 million dollars?
Hell yes!
Why, that’s enough money to buy two bionic legs, a bionic arm, and a bionic eye, fer cryin’ out loud!
This sounds like a science fiction story I read once. A woman agrees to carry the baby of her brother and his wife (she can produce eggs but can’t carry to term). When the baby- twins actually- are born, a routine blood test identifies the brother as the father, incest is presumed, and the law gets involved. This was written when in vitro fertilization and surrogate mothers still were science fiction.
For six million, I’d screw a flaming goat while singing e-i-e-i-o…
I’m not sure, but hasn’t there been at least one case where a mother was surrogate for her own daughter?
You wanna hear bizarro? I’ve heard of a case where scientist conceived a baby where the egg was taken from an aborted fetus. A kid was born having a mother who was never alive!
And AlbertRose, you don’t want to know what I’d do for 1 million.
I can’t recall the name of it at the moment, but there was a Heinlein story which involved a person who was both his own mother and his own father–in the usual way. You gotta watch those time tracks.
IANAD, but this sounds a bit far fetched. Satire perhaps? If not, link??
** BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! **
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Whoa…
I had just heard the story, rob. I didn’t really know if I could find any information on it to support my claim. But I have.
http://pages.map.com/lroberge/gosden1.htm
Granted, this doesn’t exactly say the procedure took place. But it was written in 1994 and says they’ll decide in the next year or so whether to approve this procedure. I’ll try to find out.