{"id":64175,"date":"2016-02-04T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64175"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:25:50","slug":"pentagon-may-offer-to-store-your-baby-fixins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64175","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon may offer to store your baby fixins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon can’t give you a pay raise of any consequence, but they figure that they can make up for that by storing your reproductive material in the event that you’re injured and can’t make progeny after years of service, they’ll have it ready for you, according to the New York Times<\/a>. They’ll store your sperm, or your eggs, for use later. Somehow, that will entice you to reenlist, despite poor pay and benefits.<\/p>\n

As part of an initiative to make military service more appealing and family friendly, Mr. Carter has created a pilot program that will pay for troops to have their reproductive cells preserved.<\/p>\n

The goal is to give those in uniform the peace of mind that if they are hurt on the battlefield \u2014 hundreds of veterans suffered injuries to their reproductive organs in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2014 they would still be able to have children.<\/p>\n

The program is also meant to encourage women to stay in the military during their 20s and 30s, a time when many leave after giving birth. By freezing their eggs, they will have the flexibility to remain deployed overseas or otherwise pursue their careers and put off having children.<\/p>\n

Women who reach 10 years of service \u2014 what Mr. Carter called \u201ctheir peak years for starting a family\u201d \u2014 have a retention rate that is 30 percent lower than their male counterparts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure there are a bunch of costly legal issues here. Not to mention the fact that the Pentagon and Congress have a pretty poor history of keeping promises. <\/p>\n

\u201cFreezing sperm and eggs is not like freezing chicken for dinner,\u201d said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University\u2019s Langone Medical Center. \u201cWhat happens if you die \u2014 can your wife use it? And what if your mother wants grandchildren and your wife doesn\u2019t, does that mean the sperm can be used with a surrogate? If you\u2019re cognitively disabled, can it be used? And what happens if the company housing your sperm or eggs goes bankrupt?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Caplan said that the practice of freezing eggs had become widespread only in the past five years, and that it could be more problematic than preserving sperm, which has been done for decades. He said the Pentagon should inform service members that the freezing of eggs is not always successful and can cause complications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone has a story about how poorly their records were maintained during their service, do you want those same clerks determining which sample of genetic material is yours to impregnation your wife with a child that may or may not really be yours? Once there was a clerk who mis-coded one of my language proficiency exams and made the Army think that I spoke Serbo-Croatian, when actually I spoke Castillian Spanish. Imagine the screw ups that could happen with baby gravy.<\/p>\n

It could also give the Pentagon the ability to create a race of super soldiers. The stuff of science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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