Comments on: Speaking 5/27 on human enhancement at Stanford

By: annalee

annalee — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:22:26 +0000

Sure, synthetic breast milk sounds good too! But you’d be surprised how many men would be willing to get pregnant and breast feed. Certainly not all of them — and not all women want to do it either — but many fathers I know openly envy their children’s mothers’ ability to breast feed.

By: rinab

rinab — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:06:23 +0000

Artificial wombs sound like a very good idea, but I would think better synthetic breast milk would be preferable to male breast feeding. Really, how many men (not counting transexuals) do you know who would be willing to develop breasts?

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 28 May 2006 16:31:10 +0000

Annalee’s talk was fantastic. Very glad I was in the audience

By: annalee

annalee — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:05:47 +0000

I think there will be a podcast or vodcast or other downloadable file thingie. I’ll post it if so!

By: kmeelyon

kmeelyon — Wed, 24 May 2006 19:28:41 +0000

oh annalee, that sounds so awesome. I wish I could make it, but I’ve got plans and I don’t think I can bear to trek out to Stanford on the weekend after working there all week long! podcast?

By: annalee

annalee — Tue, 23 May 2006 23:02:34 +0000

All I know is that it’s fairly expensive, but that lots of women are doing it these days. Did you see the article in the NY Times magazine a few weeks ago about women who chose to use a sperm donor rather than wait around for a guy to show up? Several of the women in that article had also done egg banking. I love technology. Personally, I’m waiting for an artificial womb and men who can breast feed. Then maybe I’ll consider breeding.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:59:45 +0000

That sounds really cool. I’ve been thinking about looking into egg banking. Do you know much about it?