Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Francis Bartlett <fgbart@nwrain.com>
Subject: Fwd: RE: A different approach
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>To: gimenez@csf.colorado.edu
>From: Francis Bartlett <fgbart@nwrain.com>
>Subject: RE: A different approach
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>Martha:
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>This morning's news included an item concerning the successful attempt of
>a gay couple, by two men, to have a baby girl, to say the least a bizarre
>event in the light of human history. This was accomplished by fertilizing
>a donated egg by one of the men and through the powers of a surrogate
>mother  who carried the egg to full term successfully.
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>The point of this exercise in my view is another example of mankind's
>inability to recognize his willing contribution to increasing the numbers
>of people on this earth willy nilly against all natural constraints. This
>is done without any thought about the finite character of earth and the
>limitless ability of man to procreate. In no other realm of the natural
>world can any specie in the whole kingdom live under the same conditions
>and man seems unwilling to recognize any responsibility for keeping his
>own actions within those same limits with his "intelligence". It seems
>that here in America the "leader" of the world with all the capabilities
>we have developed this is one area where we have been completely remiss
>and set an unworthy example for everyone.
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>Any serious effort to stem the rising tide of humanity can hardly prevail
>if a society like this in America can support the thwarting of natural
>constraints on procreation and in addition do little that is effective in
>establishing a rationally based "taboo, of olden times, against large
>families" across the breadth of the culture. The ramifications associated
>with this society's acquiescence to two males having a child go beyond the
>limits of human capabilities, The magnitude of this problem cannot be
>underestimated and certainly begs for stretching the minds of men beyond
>anything they have tackled previously. These matters border on the
>transcedental and must be so recognized.
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>Francis G. Bartlett
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