Old Joke Comes True

It used to be a joke --- definitely non-PC, but so what? Maybe you remember it. It went something like this:

"Eventually, science will advance to the point that same-sex couples will be able to have children. What should such children be called?"

"Queries."

Now, according to this article in the London Telegraph,the joke is about to come true: Same-sex couples could create children.

As technology advances, we're going to run into this ethical question with increasing frequency: just because we can do something, does that mean that we should?

Those of us who have been around for a while remember when it was considered unethical for professionals to advertise. Then someone – a lawyer, needless to say – decided to do it anyway in order to gain a leg up on his competition. Next, the dentists and, I'm sorry to say, some veterinarians decided to do it, too. Then the dam burst. Now, we are deluged with ads from all sorts of professionals from hair transplant parlors to eye surgeons, and no one ever thinks twice about the underlying ethics.

At some point in the not-too-distant future, I predict that we will also be deluged with ads for IVF specialists competing for the profits to be earned by creating children for homosexuals. I fervently hope I don't live to see it happen.