Sunday, June 6, 1999 — North Shore News -— 19

Afterlife an
ethical
conundrum

FOLLOWING news of the
March birth in Los Angeles
of a baby who was conceived
with sperm that had been
retrieved hours after his
father’s death, Pam Reno of
Cold Springs, Nev., told
reporters that she hopes
soon to find a surrogate
mother to have her grand-
child, using frozen sperm
that was retrieved from her
20-year-old son, who died in
September. (The procedure
is awaiting an ethics panel
decision by the Northern
Nevada Fertility Centre.)
However, the genes Reno
will be perpetuating (her
son’s) will be those of a 20-
year-old who died playing
Russian roulette with his
friends.

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Richmond, Calif., March:
The father of a fourth-grader

stabbed a teacher in a dis- .
agreement over the girl’s It's about troubled waters

progress,
Danville, Ky., February:
The grandmother of a mid-
dle-school student smashed
¢ teacher in the head with +
the name plate on his desk in About the human spirit
a disagreement about the
student’s progress. i i:
Rote P g March: The and the will to keep moving ahead.
father of a high school stu-
dent who got a D-minus in About the challenges of life
conduct, which the father
was disputing, punched the
teacher in the face, breaking and facing them together.
his jaw. (The father is also an
associate minister of the ; . . .
» Greater Love Tabernacle.) It's about getting on with

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