Dr.s are experimenting on unborn children in order to guarantee straight babies

[Heather MC]

www.advocate.com/health/health-news/2012/08/05/shocking-report-doctors-using-drugs-prevent-lesbian-intersex-children

Shocking Report:
Doctors Use Off-Label
Drug to Prevent
Lesbian, Bisexual,
Tomboy Babies
A new report details the dangerous
experiementation that's been going on in fetal
engineering, in which doctors are using a synthetic
steroid off-label to prevent lesbian, bisexual,
intersex, and tomboy babies.

Doctors are trying to prevent lesbian, bisexual,
and intersex babies from being born using off-
label drugs
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Shocking Report:
Doctors Use Off-Label
Drug to Prevent
Lesbian, Bisexual,
Tomboy Babies
A new report details the dangerous
experiementation that's been going on in fetal
engineering, in which doctors are using a synthetic
steroid off-label to prevent lesbian, bisexual,
intersex, and tomboy babies.

A new report out of Northwestern University's
Feinberg School of Medicine details the
dangerous experiementation that's been going
on in fetal engineering, in which doctors are
using a synthetic steroid to prevent female
babies from being born with "behavioral
masculinzation," or rather a propensity toward
lesbianism, bisexuality, intersexuality, and
tomboyism.

The paper, published in the current issue of the
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry , is authored by Alice
Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities
and bioethics at Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine, Ellen Feder,
associate professor of philosophy and religion at
American University, and Anne Tamar-Mattis,
executive director of Advocates for Informed
Choice.

The women utilized extensive Freedom of
Information Act findings to "detail an extremely
troubling off-label medical intervention
employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to
intentionally engineer the development of their
fetuses for sex normalization purposes."

[Zalatix]

1. And people say that Religious Fundies in America aren't as bad as the Taliban

[HiPointDem]

2. northwestern university est. 1851 -- not a fundie school.

Northwestern has one of the largest university endowments in the United States, currently valued at $7.2 billion.[1] One of only 62 institutions elected to the Association of American Universities (1917), Northwestern was awarded more than $500 million in research grants in 2010–2011, placing it in the first tier of the major research universities in the United States by the Center for Measuring University Performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University

[Zalatix]

3. And who is behind these experiments that are happening there?

[jberryhill]

6. Wtf makes you think NU has been doing such things?

This is not a report of experiments going on at Northwestern University.

[HiPointDem]

7. I'd say the report in the advocate is a bit misleading or confusing.

abstract:

Following extensive examination of published and unpublished materials, we provide a history of the use of dexamethasone in pregnant women at risk of carrying a female fetus affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).

This intervention has been aimed at preventing development of ambiguous genitalia, the urogenital sinus, tomboyism, and lesbianism.

We map out ethical problems in this history, including: misleading promotion to physicians and CAH-affected families; de facto experimentation without the necessary protections of approved research; troubling parallels to the history of prenatal use of diethylstilbestrol (DES); and the use of medicine and public monies to attempt prevention of benign behavioral sex variations.

Critical attention is directed at recent investigations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP);

we argue that the weak and unsupported conclusions of these investigations indicate major gaps in the systems meant to protect subjects of high-risk medical research.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1523l7615744552


Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) refers to any of several autosomal recessive diseases resulting from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of cortisol from cholesterol by the adrenal glands (steroidogenesis).[1]

Most of these conditions involve excessive or deficient production of sex steroids and can alter development of primary or secondary sex characteristics in some affected infants, children, or adults.[2]

The symptoms of CAH vary depending upon the form of CAH and the sex of the patient. Symptoms can include:

Due to inadequate mineralocorticoids:

- vomiting due to salt-wasting leading to dehydration and death

Due to excess androgens:

- functional and average sized penis in cases involving extreme virilization (but no sperm)
- ambiguous genitalia, in some females, such that it can be initially difficult to determine sex
- early pubic hair and rapid growth in childhood
- precocious puberty or failure of puberty to occur (sexual infantilism: absent or delayed puberty)
- excessive facial hair, virilization, and/or menstrual irregularity in adolescence
- infertility due to anovulation
- enlarged clitoris and shallow vagina[3]

Dexamethasone is used as an off-label early pre-natal treatment for the symptoms of CAH in female fetuses, but it does not treat the underlying congenital disorder.

A 2007 Swedish clinical trial found that treatment may cause cognitive and behavioural defects, but the small number of test subjects means the study cannot be considered definitive.

Administration of pre-natal dexamethasone has been the subject of controversy over issues of informed consent and because treatment must predate a clinical diagnosis of CAH in the female fetus.[4]

The treatment has also raised concerns in the LGBT community following an essay posted to the forum of the Hastings Center, a think tank devoted to bioethics, which quoted published research that suggested that pre-natal treatment of female fetuses could prevent those fetuses from becoming lesbians after birth, may make them more likely to engage in "traditionally" female-identified behaviour and careers, and more interested in bearing and raising children.

Citing a known attempt by a man using his knowledge of the fraternal birth order effect to avoid having a homosexual son by using a surrogate, the essayists (Professor Alice Dreger of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Professor Ellen Feder of American University and attorney Anne Tamar-Mattis) suggest that pre-natal "dex" treatments constitute the first known attempt to use in utero protocols to reduce the incidence of homosexuality and bisexuality in humans.[5]

They find such tampering to be morally objectionable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_adrenal_hyperplasia

[jillan]

4. Holy f*ck! And these people think they are Christians? Isn't this the complete opposite?

We are all equal in God's eyes.... even lesbian babies!!!!

And besides - steriods are not good for you. Tell me how could they be good for a developing fetus?

[Heather MC]

5. Well the fact that this experiment exist, proves people are born gay

But how homophobic do you have to be to let someone do this to your unborn child????????