Hits & Misses – 2008/12/11

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  1. Bruce says:

    Robert Frank has a snippy piece in the Wall Street Journal, distaining the fact that lower income women sell their eggs and their wombs to high-income couples.

    He’s obsessed with class.

  2. Nancy says:

    John, you did not relate the most important part of the original article.

    Women get more for their eggs if the donor has desirable caharacteristics. For high test scores, athletic ability, good looks, etc., you can get up to $25,000 for an egg.

  3. Ken says:

    I think Frank doesn’t care about poor people. But he has a fixation on ridiculing the rich and the comfortable.

  4. Susan Gandy says:

    On pills and brains, I have this question: Why is it okay to enhance your brain power with pills, but not okay to enhace your athletic ability with pills?

  5. Bruce says:

    Catholic Church is out today condemning in vitro.
    So what should be done with all those frozen embryos? The Church admits it has no idea.

  6. John Goodman says:

    On whether healthy people should have the right to boost their brain power with pills, here is the case for by Judith Warner in the New York Times.