During the week a number of developments have caused us to think that the world is really getting crazier...
Following on from the proposal that women be able to sell their eggs for embryonic stem cell research, British scientists have announced that they have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells.
Scientists in Newcastle, UK claimed it "could eventually help men with fertility problems to father a child."
However, the notion of producing sperm from stem cells has always been promoted as a way of 'doing away with men' - previous reports have said it could perhaps to be used by a lesbian couple who want to have a child but don't want to have a man involved.
They may think that this may get over the moral dilemma of a child not knowing both their biological parents - however, the raising of the child by a mother and a father is also important.
Just this week an article was printed in a Melbourne paper about the increased risks involved with elective caesarean births......
