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Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Summary: Essay describes the commercialization of gametes.
Everyday people shed thousands of cells, many still living. The law of transference states that every time we touch something, we take some of that thing away with us and part of us is left behind. With this in mind and with the fact that medical technology has advanced to a state where an egg cell can be fertilized with the DNA from any other cell in a human body - one of the following proofs must be true. Either every single cell has immense value or every single cell has no value in and of itself.
I believe in the commercialization of gametes for two reasons. One, I've all but stated in my introduction; individual cells have no real value to me. I appreciate what they do and how they keep me alive, but I understand transference and its necessity. The second reason is that there is...
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