I’m thinking of starting a new category on this blog called "Things Grandma Didn’t Have to Fret" that will feature news items that, quite simply, couldn’t exist two generations ago. Case in point, one man impregnating 30 lesbians in Australia without ever meeting them, which in turn is leading to concerns over inadvertent incest. FoxNews explains:
One of South Australia’s
foremost experts in reproductive technology – Andrew Dutney – said that
in one reported case, about 30 lesbians were impregnated by sperm from
one man, the Advertiser reported.The
mothers then organised picnics with all the children, raising the fear
they might socialise with their half-siblings without realising they
were related.In another case, a man’s sperm was used to produce 29 children, most of whom were living in Adelaide.
They
did not know who their half-siblings are, raising concerns that in a
"big country town" like Adelaide, they could accidentally commit incest.
Eek.
Imagine if time travel was possible and someone who lived in the first half of the 20th century were to land on this day and read that story.
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