Designer Babies - Thursday 17 February at 9:30pm

Where have you gone Elizabeth? All your notices have disappeared! Have I scared you off? Or have you realised the error of your ways.

Hi Elizabeth,.
In short the answer is no. I no longer work for the health service. I have to agree with Bazinga on several points. Your ideas are very simplistic and ideologic. It seems to me you are either very young or very narrow minded. You tell me you are a typical rags to riches case, I am interested to hear your story. It strikes me that your climb from the rags to the riches has desensitized you too the feelings and needs of others. You are opinionated and as I see it, very wrong in many of your statements. The financial crisis we are suffering in Britain is I agree terrible, but it can also be said that America has also had a very disasterous time financially, as have many of the other European countries. Who are you? What gives you the right to pass judgement. Perhaps you should be concentrating on your own back yard. After all America has one of the highest O2 pollution rates in the world. What car do you have?
Incidentally, have you priced the costs of solar panels recently. They may be cheaper to run, but who, in this financial time of uncertainty and job losses has the money to install them! Get real, change comes but at a very high cost.

Many of the African countries have had their civil wars. But there is war everywhere at some time or another. Believe me I have no rose tinted specticles when it comes to Africa. African people have been exploited and their land robbed of minerals for many hundreds of years, mainly by Britain and the western countries, but also by some of their own politicians. That I don't dispute.
The problems that Africa has is caused by the foreign ountries who own the Gold mines, diamond mines & copper mines etc, paying their workers a pittance to work for long hours in dreadful conditions. The African countries are extremely wealthy, and it is the west who have pillaged their countries holding back their people,and doing their best to ensure the they remain poor, uneducated and suppressed. This is changing, African people know what is going on, they are enterprising and know what they want.
I personally don't like charity handouts - that is not to say that I don't want to help. I believe in giving a man a means to help himself, that is the way forward. That is through education, providing tools, seeds and expertise, not giving him a bag of rice and sending him on his way.
I might add that to liken Africa with Gazza is somewhat sweeping to say the least! I found that comment lacked knowledgable judgement. Your comments on how "India has now has space stations and used nuclear power for 30 years", made me cringe somewhat, I personally don't find that impressive. India like Africa is a very colourful and cultural society. India should perhaps look at it's poverty records. Is it justified to spend millions of dollars on space stations when there are children staving on their streets? Is that good politics or good management? Not in my world!
We can criticise and try to put the world to right, but until you walk a mile in the shoes of those who are starving, downtrodden and living with absolutely nothing and no hope. It means nothing, as people of this planet, in this time, it is our duty to make life better for our fellow residents. It doesn't matter where on the planet you live, what your politics are, we are all human.
As to my working for free, we must all make a living to put food on the table, but I can also hold up my head and say that I help to make peoples lives easier and happier on a daily basis in my work with disabled adults.
I am not, as you seem to think, totally ignorant to the medical proffession being a qualified nurse, who incidentally took her proffession very seriously, and having worked for an American Pharmacuitical company some years ago.

Dear Elizabeth, I have fully come to terms with my medical problems and am prepared to live with my lot. My mission is to help my friends to educate and allow people to feed their families. I am sure that there are unscrupulous companies out there, and I would fully agree with you that the laws should not allow exploitation and experimentation on less fortunate nations. However I find that your opinions on these companies are getting to the point of being obsessive. Is this hyper babble your way of trying to sell your book? Please get off your soap box......there is a heck of a lot of human misdemeanours out there. Bang your drum for something that doen't include lining your own pockets. If you feel so strongly that your book will help millions to conquer their illness' why not pubish it for free on-line?

Hey Bazinga,
It looks like we might be doing that. My husband is from Ghana, but lives in Zambia. I was over there at the begining of the year and it was heartbreaking the number of orphaned children. I'm actually trying to get a charity up and running to help families suffering from HIV/AIDS and the orphaned children left behind. I have some Zambian friends who are working in one of the compounds there, trying to make a difference. So many orphaned children with no chance of education and living in abject poverty. It's really terrible. I need to raise £6,500 to allow them to continue too do their work there for a year! It's so little for such a lot of good work. I'm just waiting on some stories and photographs coming through from them, I would love to take a 'Current' team over there to film. But I'm not sure how I would go about that. If anyone has any ideas for fund raising or profile raising can you please give me a shout. I'm new to charities and fund raising, so any help would be very gratefully received. Cheers

Oh yes, play God and increase the prejudice against disabilty and those who are not so perfect! I think Hitler had pretty much the same idea did he not? A few generations down the line we may forget what the word "human" means! Next thing, they'll find an excuse to legally eliminate "not quite right fetuses" won't they?!

I agree that natural is best and lets face it more fun! I was appalled at the lengths couples will go too to ensure they get the correct gender, particularly in Asia.
I'm an infertile woman who is desparate to have a family, alas sadly, not to be.
If only we were loaded, we could go Stateside and choose a little combination of my husband and me! Why are babies so expensive, when people are throwing them away on a daily basis?!!!
It's a mad, sad, bad world. Where some people are so selfish they will go to any lengths to get exactly what they want. Instead of thanking God for what they already have.

so why not naturally?