February 8 was the birthday of my mother! A given "important" because he turned 50 ^ ^ often at that age you think the only negative things, like: I have already achieved half of my life, I'm getting old and other nonsense like that, but is no more than fifty a number, and the important thing is to feel young at heart (it's a cliché, but it is also true) and my mother certainly is.
We celebrated the anniversary of his birth with a dinner of couscous and kebab take-away (the greatest gift for her? Not cook!) And we finished in style with lemon cake prepared by Moreno, which can be seen below:
We celebrated the anniversary of his birth with a dinner of couscous and kebab take-away (the greatest gift for her? Not cook!) And we finished in style with lemon cake prepared by Moreno, which can be seen below:
Detail of the flower of sugar made by Moreno ... 
... and the cake in all its beauty and goodness. The cake was especially appreciated by the birthday girl, well known lover of limoncello, which was struck by the beautiful rose, you do not think he wanted to eat him, but he kept for guardarsela sometimes ^ ^ how sweet!
And now we move on to another topic, certainly less cheerful than the last. When I read the news, you can find on this link , I was really shocked. It's called
Umut-Talha, which means "hope" in turkish, and is a child-medicine.
For the uninitiated, a child-medicine has given birth to a child mainly to treat someone else, and is a practice that has seen its first case in Europe in 2005 (Spain and Belgium), while the U.S. was in 2000.
The ethical implications of this practice are many, and strong disagreements come mostly as is imaginable, from the Church: it is inconceivable that a human being has been created in vitro and gave birth not for love but as a "supplier" of blood and marrow. Umut
-Talha was given birth, so they say, to cure the disease of brothers, called beta thalassemia or sickle cell anemia, in short, is a hereditary degenerative disease that causes a defect in hemoglobin synthesis (this is clearly not a treatise on medicine so if you want to know more about it here ).
Many of the articles on the Internet can be considered quite separately (from the Church), and do not offer other versions of history. I must admit that even I was shocked when I read the news (the very thought of having given birth to a child for his life will serve as a mere walking pharmacy for others makes me shudder) and I was immediately against, but then I read that the parents wanted another child anyway, regardless, at this point, I thought, did well to want to try in vitro fertilization, not only was born a healthy child (in a nutshell, was "created" the child through assisted reproduction and genetically selected) , but this baby will be helpful, only through its existence, to create a decent life for her younger siblings sick. In fact, in the case of beta thalassemia resolving the only therapy is the transplantation of bone marrow or stem cells from cord blood, from histocompatible donors (often, the brothers of the patient). (source: here )
Mass in this perspective, the birth of Umut-Talha does not seem so terribly anti-ethics, rather it seems to me an act of love not only by parents (who wanted to donate a healthy life to at least one of their children) but also by the child, once grown up and once he realized they can physically do something to help their relatives, feel they can be very contribute to their happiness, which will make him happy too, I suppose.
Sure, you can still argue that its not a real choice, but I sincerely want to see it: after reading so many articles that spit on the parents and scientists, I want to really think that the lives of non-Talha Umut only was a gift of love but will give a continual love.
And what do you think? It 's definitely a topic thorny:)
Giulia
Umut-Talha, which means "hope" in turkish, and is a child-medicine.
For the uninitiated, a child-medicine has given birth to a child mainly to treat someone else, and is a practice that has seen its first case in Europe in 2005 (Spain and Belgium), while the U.S. was in 2000.
The ethical implications of this practice are many, and strong disagreements come mostly as is imaginable, from the Church: it is inconceivable that a human being has been created in vitro and gave birth not for love but as a "supplier" of blood and marrow. Umut
-Talha was given birth, so they say, to cure the disease of brothers, called beta thalassemia or sickle cell anemia, in short, is a hereditary degenerative disease that causes a defect in hemoglobin synthesis (this is clearly not a treatise on medicine so if you want to know more about it here ).
Many of the articles on the Internet can be considered quite separately (from the Church), and do not offer other versions of history. I must admit that even I was shocked when I read the news (the very thought of having given birth to a child for his life will serve as a mere walking pharmacy for others makes me shudder) and I was immediately against, but then I read that the parents wanted another child anyway, regardless, at this point, I thought, did well to want to try in vitro fertilization, not only was born a healthy child (in a nutshell, was "created" the child through assisted reproduction and genetically selected) , but this baby will be helpful, only through its existence, to create a decent life for her younger siblings sick. In fact, in the case of beta thalassemia resolving the only therapy is the transplantation of bone marrow or stem cells from cord blood, from histocompatible donors (often, the brothers of the patient). (source: here )
Mass in this perspective, the birth of Umut-Talha does not seem so terribly anti-ethics, rather it seems to me an act of love not only by parents (who wanted to donate a healthy life to at least one of their children) but also by the child, once grown up and once he realized they can physically do something to help their relatives, feel they can be very contribute to their happiness, which will make him happy too, I suppose.
Sure, you can still argue that its not a real choice, but I sincerely want to see it: after reading so many articles that spit on the parents and scientists, I want to really think that the lives of non-Talha Umut only was a gift of love but will give a continual love.
And what do you think? It 's definitely a topic thorny:)
Giulia
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