Stem Cells: Same-sex couples to have their own genetic children in future.

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Kasz216 said:

Not really.  I mean, unless you are going to activily gentically alter people for superior genes and take out hereditary diseases and the like...

having two gay people have a biological son isn't actually useful for mankind. 

Great for the indvidual parents sure, but it holds no actual benefit for mankind since the genetics of two people are going to be random, and when you consider the losing out on adoption and overpopulation you could argue that on a larger sense it'd be damaging.

It's the same with surogacy for infertile straight couples.  Really it'd be great if we could move away from a culture that suggests that you NEED to have a child who has your DNA.

Well I agree that this would have a negative impact on adoption, but I'm sure that in the future adoption will no longer be an issue, as all children will probably not be concieved naturally, but rather in a laboratory. So there won't be any more unwanted kids, plus overpopulation could be solved by passing legislation limiting the number of kids a couple can have to 1-2, and making it illegal for children to be concieved naturally (they could make some sort of very advanced contraceptive methods mandatory).

Still, 2 men being able to concieve a child without a woman's help is an amazing discovery just for the sake of science (plus it could come in handy if a plague wipe's out all the women).