Re: Birth To A Virgin (to April)
April Dorsey-Tyler (adorsey@netusa1.net)
Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:45:22 -0600
> April> >
> > I don't know about Raymond, but it falls into mine.
> >
> > There are a couple of ways a virgin could get pregnant. First, if a
guy
> > ejaculates near the mouth of the vagina, it's possible for some sperm
to
> > swim up the tract and thus get pregnant while retaining "technical"
> > virginity. (One could think of other, similar ways sperm could be
placed
> in
> > the vagina without penile insertion). In this case, the kid could be
> either
> > sex. Second, it's possible that one of her eggs could be stimulated by
> > something (lightening, maybe - this is theoretical, but, especially
with
> > the sheep thing, generally accepted by fertility researchers as being
> > possible) which would stimulate the egg to divide, differentiate,
implant
> > and become a person. However, these kids would ALWAYS be female. And
of
> > course, there are all kinds of ways (in vitro fertilization, gamete
> > intrafallopian transfer, sperm injection and implantation - I'll
explain
> > all these procedures if you want me to) but they all involve
> fertilization
> > of egg with sperm outside the body and then insertion into the female
via
> a
> > thin catheter which would not break the hymen (though the speculum
> probably
> > would).
> >
> > I don't know about birds - I'm a mammalian reproductive physiologist.
I
> DO
> > know that Mary did not have Jesus by virgin birth unless she was either
> > doing some serious fooling around with Joseph, (presumably), or else it
> was
> > a miracle, which I don't accept.
>
> (COURT 2/28) April: Thank you for these comments - VERY interesting.
> Pardon my ignorance here on this subject, but I assume that sperm is the
> only vehicle by which male chromosomes could reach an egg - is this
correct
> or are there any other possibilities? Even remote ones?
> And are male chromosomes the only way in which male genetic coding can be
> implanted in the "fertilized" egg?
>
> This would be interesting to read if you can shed any light on this.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Dave.
There is NO way male coding can get into females without sperm penetration
in mammals. Reptiles, for example, determine the sex of the offspring by
the temperature the eggs incubate in. But in humans, a male sperm (or its
genetic material) is needed to produce a male. Period.
April
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