This sounds like it can be filed in the "Scientific Discoveries that Could Very Well Cause Ethical Headaches Down the Line" category: "Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will ever have...Although much more research is needed to confirm and explore the findings, the work raises the tantalizing possibility that it could someday lead to new ways to fight a woman's biological clock, perhaps by stockpiling her egg-producing cells or by stimulating them to make eggs again."
In other reproductive news, it doesn't get any easier for mothers in China after they do get pregnant - "These and thousands of other children stolen from the teeming industrial hubs of China’s Pearl River Delta have never been recovered by their parents or by the police. But anecdotal evidence suggests the children do not travel far. Although some are sold to buyers in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, most of the boys are purchased domestically by families desperate for a male heir, parents of abducted children and some law enforcement officials who have investigated the matter say...“If you have only girls, you don’t feel right inside,” said Ms. Zhen, who has one child, an 11-year-old son. “You feel your status is lower than everyone else.”"
From the Sunday Times: I'm not a big fan of Frank Rich, but I can agree with him in this respect - If there is any good that could come out of this recession, it will be the death, or at least injury, of what he calls the "Money is King" narrative.
Lastly, a few weeks back I brought you the "discrete affair" service. Now you can just drop all pretense with "Seeking Arrangement," a new site for all you sugar daddies/mommies/babies out there.
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