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Thu Apr 28, 2016, 09:24 AM
Apr 2016
You can't genetically tell if a child will be gay or straight, or right or left handed.


But once it is possible, there will be mistakes. No technology is 100%. And even if they were, mistakes are made.

Red headed parents usually pick a red headed donor.


With the hope of getting a red headed kid, which may or may not turn out to actually be the case.

In the end, even folks who use sperm banks are only playing the odds, just like the rest of us.

Folks have been having kids for a long, long time.

Hopefully, we've gained the maturity to understand that there are no guarantees when it comes to parenthood.

A better technology for folks who really do want that level of certainty is cloning. That way, your kid will be an identical twin.

Of course, even then, there will still be mistakes. You might get the wrong clone.









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