Re: LIFESCIENCE: gender 1

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In einer eMail vom 13.08.99 19:57:05 MEZ, schreiben Sie:

<< Thema:    Re: LIFESCIENCE: gender 1
 Datum: 13.08.99 19:57:05 MEZ
 From:  lacinova@ipt.med.tu-muenchen.de (Luba Lacinova)
 Sender:    owner-lifescience-en@aec.at
 Reply-to:  lifescience@aec.at
 To:    lifescience@aec.at
 
 Dear Lubica Lacinova,
 
 
 >you are absolutely right i am probably not so well informed about 
 alternative
 >possibilities for women to plan these issues autonomously
 
 Natural reproduction is the one when man awomen get together etcetera. In 
 most cases it still works.

indeed  it does work quite often without genetic engineering or other 
reproduction techniques

 Yes, and again, you have (particularly in Germany these choices are open) 
 also a choice to return to more natural position, to give birth at home, to 
 use a help of "Hebamme".

yes that is true you have a choice here.
but the traditional doctors always warn if something happens you are not save 
enough at home and they give women an uncomfortable feeling of not having an 
allround security.

 technology mostly only fixes the problems 

does it only fix but does it like lifescience always produce new problem that 
have to be solved by new technologies?

 >> The point is not to increase accessibility of "alternative
 >> conception methods", the point is to reject their use in cases when they 
 are  >> not a necessity.
 
yes


Second, which I would  prefer, would search for reasons for decreasing sperm 
count and would  counteract it. Most probale reson are estrogen-like 
chemicals in our 
 environment. And here we are: estrogen-like chemicals are a part of our 
 technologically advanced future. How could we admit, that once again our 
 wonderfull progress went wild?
 

yes that is an important point by using a new technology like gene technology 
people would not have to ask further about the social reasons that lead to 
the changes in natural reproduction. 

 >yes but tv is not a neutral medium
 
 I agree, but other media are not neutral, too. And the situation in Germany 
 is
 quite good - I am always fascinated to see that main TV news on ARD (public
 TV) reach the highest audience. And regarding gene- and biotechnologies, ARTE
 regularly prepares whole-evening-programs where both supporters and their
 opposition have they say. 

yes i know a guy who worked on a feature for that whole evening on life 
science.

Perhaps, this has some relation to generally high
 level of german skepticism towards technology and their support for Greens? 

perhaps i do not know

 
 >don't forget the total eclipse today
 
 It was not possible to forget here in Munich - even BMW stopped the machines
 for a while to allow employees to see "Black Sun."

in frankfurt it was not that impressing to cloudy and not dark enough for me
regards
birgit richard
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