LIFESCIENCE: gender 1

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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dear participants of the lifescience list 
dear speer, dear melinda, dear peter, dear lorenzo, dear nick
and all silent participants, hope i forgot no one out there

may i adress another field that has not been discussed until now?
it is the field of reproduction techniques and their influence of our concept 
of gender and of maternity and birth.
as it common practise these reproductive technologies will be in the hand of 
mostly male geneticists or doctors that that will decide whether kindly to 
donnate anything to a pleading woman. so woman will be mostly not able to 
know about all the possiblities of genetics and reproductive technologies, 
especially if they have little money (in germany they cutting down the rates 
for consultations with special machines, if you have normal insurance you 
have to pay extra money to make ultrasonic images of the fetus)
the cases of a doctor in rome allowing a 63 year old woman to give birth to 
until now two sons was a scandal the critique was how irresponsible this 
woman is to give birth at that age because she will die soon. 
what about all old man being father in senior age. This is indeed normal and 
accepted by society. 
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