Bioethics Discussion Blog: My Blastocyst Poem

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Monday, February 07, 2005

My Blastocyst Poem

I think what is ignored in all the discussion about personhood for a blastocyst is the need for the proper culture media to grow and develop to make use of that alleged personhood. Well, I thought I might express it in a simple little poem--which I wrote.


“Home Grown”

by Maurice Bernstein, M.D.


I wish
that blastocyst
in the Petri dish
was my son or daughter.

I know
that blastocyst
can’t grow
without a home called mother.


..Maurice.

1 Comments:

At Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:40:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amen to that!

 

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