{"id":2462,"date":"2004-05-05T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/06\/custom-kids-made-to-order\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:32:23","slug":"custom-kids-made-to-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/05\/custom-kids-made-to-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom kids, made to order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11160,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/medtech\\\/0,1286,63336,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/medtech\\\/0,1286,63336,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11161,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0767805712\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0767805712\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How would you feel if a major reason for your existence in the world, possibly the primary reason for your conception, was to act as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,63336,00.html\" title=\"Babies Born With A Mission\">genetically guaranteed donor<\/a> to cure your older sibling of a disease?<\/p>\n<p>Kind of weird to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, this kind of thing has been done for years, just without the benefit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0767805712\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Gattaca\">Gattaca<\/a>-style genetic screening to ensure a compatibility match, but it was a far more private matter. With the news stories surrounding these more recent children, how might they feel if somewhere down the line, when they&#8217;re old enough to understand, what if they somehow find out that they are one of these kids?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, we weren&#8217;t <em>planning<\/em> on having another child, but then your brother got sick&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Better or worse than finding out you&#8217;re adopted?<\/p>\n<p>What if there was any favoritism &#8212; real or perceived &#8212; in how the two children were treated before this aspect was discovered? If the older child (the recipient) was seen as the &#8220;favorite&#8221;, how much could that affect the younger child&#8217;s perception of themself? Or if the younger was perceived as the &#8220;favorite&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>That could easily be enough to screw you up for a long, long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you feel if a major reason for your existence in the world, possibly the primary reason for your conception, was to act as a genetically guaranteed donor to cure your older sibling of a disease?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[23,977,514],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-film","tag-gattaca","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}