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Tuesday, November 29, 2005And yet while men changed the laws, and the customs, to suit their specific needs such as virility enhancement, women have made no similarly powerful change in areas that affect them specifically, such as fertility enhancement. That is, if women had gotten together and decided that it was as important to extend the age of female fertility as it was for men to have access to Viagra, one can only assume that medical science would have made that change -- science is like that. But women, who outnumber men, both in terms of population and at the ballot box, never organized themselves to demand such a fertility breakthrough. Is science like that - able to summon a technological breakthrough just because a market demands it? It could only be true if we lived in a time of complete mastery of the universe. If we understood every single aspect of the world and its workings, and had the ability to manipulate at will any part of it. Our knowledge isn't nearly so broad and so deep to make that sort of thing possible. And we have a long way to go before we get there. UPDATE: Jim Miller points out that we already have the means to prolong the fertility of women - it just isn't as easy as taking a pill. posted by Sydney on 11/29/2005 04:12:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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