Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 11, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Wednesday. July 11, 1973 genetics Miracle or menace we now have the know Edge to alter human life. Who has the right to decide when and if an individual s behaviour is to he tampered with custom ordered Chil Dren arc a very real possibility but the moral questions Are overwhelming. This is the last of four Arti cles. By Ana iion1g new York special was working blueprints now exist for altering a human being and they raise the most awesome questions in his tory who shall live and who shall die who shall be born changed destroyed in the womb be Given special skills even have their memories edited Man now Lias the knowledge. Docs he have the Wisdom sonic scientists Are frankly worried. Or. Marshall w. Nirenberg the Nobel prize Winner who helped crack the Gunelic code has warned that Man will be Able to manipulate the Gene before he can judge the consequences of such action. Or. Salvador Luria another Nobel isl has flatly thai tampering with genes May threaten Man s future. One prominent soviet scientist has prescribed that world Powers will use genetic Engi Neering to produce men with super brains and super talents in their struggle for superiority. Still other scientists foresee the Breeding of men for specific jobs in specific Environ ments for life under the sea or for life on Distant plan ets for instance. Pick sex color in at Friendly clinic dramatically discovery of the double Helix Model of Dan has thrust science onto a jump ing off place where it can manipulate and perhaps create Hie itself. The implication is stagger ing far greater than Hie split Ling of the atom. Since Dan it Hie template that Stamps Oul the program for each eel each characteristic of the body genetic tinkering will affect All generations to come for Good or bad. Yet the idea it fearful is also hopeful. For the first Tom in human history the lives of unborn children destined by in Horn defects for death or a vegetative existence May he salvaged. And according to biochemist or. Robert g. Martin of the National Institute of health enormous Good could Stem from genetic engineering in afflictions like cancer and heart disease How soon will this be Possi ble or. Martin guesses that sue c u it u r e alteration of human cells could come any time now but application to human therapy May be five or 10 years but genes do a lot More than carry a body s functional errors or determine hair and Eye color or body shape. They May also determine an individual s intelligence. His craving for drugs or alcohol. His pre disposition to crime homosexuality even divorce. And who shall decide when and if an individual s behaviour s to be tampered with or. Charles r. Shaw chief of medical genetics at the univer sity of Texas has compiled a list of behaviour traits that arc at least partly affected by he in his Book when your Chili needs Jelp William Morrow co., new or. Shaw lists such items As strength of sex drive aggressiveness sensitivity verbal and mathematical abilities musical ability intelligence and the craving for alcohol and drugs. Indeed the search for a connection Between an individual s genes and his behaviour a picked up steam recently or. David Rosenthal a t i o n a 1 Institute of mental health psychologist says it is difficult not to come to the conclusion that heredity plays some role in both psychopathy and that does not mean a specific Gene causes criminality. Ii does mean that Gene influence factors like poor in psychotic personality sexual disturbances and emotional ins Tabili t y Are probably linked to crime. More evidence or. Ray mond r. Crows of tile univer sity of Iowa reports the off Spring of criminal mothers Are More Apt to turn to crime than others even when separate from their mothers at a tender age. He studied children parted from their parents before age three. And of course there is the hassle Over the Pyy syndrome in which men with an extra a chromosome Are reported More violent and criminal than the Normal by male. The syn drome occurs once in every 800 male births. A relatively High incidence of Pyy men have been found in prisons and men Al hospitals. 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Donald w Goodwin of Washington univ i sity school of Medicine st Louis found that a child liven with an adopted alcohol Parent would be far less like to become alcoholic than i child living with a natural a coolie Parent. What s More they found a High divorce rate among Alco holies children. Divorce and alcoholism have often been the danish team said but the former has generally been attributed to disruptive effects o the latter. Our data suggest that divorce and alcoholism May perhaps be co variants o a single or related genetic pro disposition. Even homosexuality May have genetic undertones. Or Hay b. Evans of Loma Lind University school of Medicine California reports Koto steroid secretions differ for Homo am heterosexuals. Ket steroids Are byproducts of male sex nor Mono disintegration. Other researchers found Sam Ilar differences for cholesterol and creatinine Levels. And from Stanford University comes a report Fiat suggests that psychic Powers too Are inherited an idea Long Field by the russians. In surveying a future which Man would be Able to decide his child s sex physical traits and behaviour Autho Jerome Agel concludes Gene in engineering has in it the makings of a totalitarianism hat would give god a run for his agcy considers the far reaching predictions of her Man Kahn of think tank Fame n Bis Book Herman kahns Cious Ness new american Library new Many biologists believe it nay soon be possible Foi parents to put in an order for a specific kind of agcy notes. They la select from As sorted seed packets and Cata logs at a Friendly neighbourhood family clinic literally a a and a store picking and blending the preferred sex love is. Jour dishpan hands. Love is. Throwing her kisses at Long Dis Tance rates. Color virility height in weight agcy worries about die search for abnormal traits via genetic screening. It could he says easily disrupt family relationships and psychologically damage determination of a baby s sex before birth is of course of great interest to potential parents. And some Day soon laboratories will disclose a foetus sex to parents for a fee. But Here too morality rears an anxious head what will parents do if their child s sex is not what they d like it to be kill it while still in the womb by abortion and Hope for better Luck next time the Jerusalem chromosome conference a few weeks ago free dym01abelmaker value order buy one Gross Bic banana porous pens and gel a demo my. I Label Naker free. Value s13.45. Includes 6 Rolls of Type in assorted colours Bic Al 2592-assorled Ink colours 4 do. Black 4 do. Blue 4 do red free Panti Hose value buy 3 Doz. Bic banana porous and get 2 pairs of pretty Panti Hose free. Value s3.00. Ally Active highlight Shade one size 95 to 150 ibs. Order Bic fl64b-solid Ink Colour All Blue red or Black. 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