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Hoaglund identifies bioethical dilemmas which concern all of us. Using medical technology to create voluntary single parent families is indeed awesome. Regardless of recipient, custom ordering our children through AID has frightening implications on both the micro and macro levels. These implications are humorously illustrated in a story of Bernard Shaw and Isadora Duncan (Anderson, 1977, p. 41). Duncan suggested that they should have a child since her body and Shaw’s brain would be such a marvelous combination. To this Shaw replied, “Yes, madam, the snag would be if it had your brain and my body!” Indeed, there are many and much more serious potential snags.
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Ames, B.D. (1982). Comment: Response to “The Voluntary One-Parent Family—Some Qualms”. In: Cafagna, A.C., Peterson, R.T., Staudenbaur, C.A. (eds) Philosophy, Children, and the Family. Child Nurturance, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3473-6_6
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