The story that was my spring board into this story was a story on ABC nightly news called Save a Dying Child, Have Another. It was extremely interesting and in that story I think there are a lot of ideas that could be very controversial and are very important issues today in America. The basic idea is there is a family that had a dying child who needed a almost perfect bone marrow transplant to save her life. So doctors took a bunch of fertilized eggs from the parents and examined them to see which would be the best match for the dying child. Then they took the rest of the fertilized eggs and put them in a freezer and implanted the closest matching egg into the mother. When the mother had the baby the doctor then took the marrow from the umbilical cord and transplanted it with the child. Both children are alive and healthy today but there are many questions that arise from this story. Is it okay to take fertilized eggs or potential lives and discard them and freeze them? Is science getting to the point of being able to change DNA or cells in babies? There are also stories about scientists who combine 2 eggs from different mothers to manipulate the babies genes, is that okay? Is it okay for a scientist or doctor to play a “God” like role in the lives of unborn children? I’m hoping to find out all of the answers to these questions and more. For more info on Save a Dying Child, Have Another check out the ABC news link on my blog.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Cheer Competitions
I love cheer but this last competition has been crazy. It was for school cheerleading not my competitive team and we did not do well. We did pretty well but we were definitely were out of our league. I miss competitive cheer!!! School cheer is just not the same. You do not get the same energy rush of adrenalin or anything, its just like practice. There is not as many people cheering for you and it feels like there are not as many people supporting you and cheering you on. Also, my competitive team is like a family. We are all there for each other and are extremely close unlike my school team. All of the school team is just annoying and none of us get along. They just like to argue with each other and I don’t think they have ever heard of compromising. They also do not have any idea what real cheerleading is and I definitely think they finally got some sense knocked into them today at the competition. Here’s to hoping we get much better!