Give me biology with a slow hand! I was really taken aback to read in the Globe and Mail (Annie McIlroy,"The birth of the biological single parent," April 21, www.globeandmail.com)this morning that, while it's not yet possible, it may not be long before babies can be born (manufactured?)from one parent of either sex. The embryos will be made from sperm and ova created from the stem cells of a single person, male or female -- reprogrammed stem cells -- and then transferred to the womb or the mother or a surrogate mother. This will theoretically be possible even if the person who owned the cells is already dead. Would the resulting child be a clone? Apparently not, because of all the mixing and matching of genes that would take place to create this future child. Do we want biological single parenthood to become the norm? Can we predict what kind of non-clone child would result? Very scary to contemplate. Let's go slow, very, very slow, and take lots of time to deliberate. ccopnick@earthlink.net

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