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It occured to me that birth control could be automatic
visualize an oocyte after meeting a sperm it blocks other
sperm If the tiny thing that started the oocytes sperm
blocking chemistry were a motile bacteria like a
spirochete then the vaginal bacteria would reach the egg
first passivating
the oocyte blocking pregnancy
Motile chemotactic bacteria exist, common selective
breeding of these bacteria to seek the surface chemistry
of an oocyte is rapid as hundreds of billions of bacteria
are at every petri dish; just add mutagens to create an
oocyte seeking spirochete
When people want to have children on purpose: a drug
specific to the bacteria could then remove the
spirochete permitting conception; people do their sexy
intercourse thing yet children are always conceived on
purpose
Thus a nation with a one child policy could have a widely
distributed bacteria that prevented millions or hundreds
of millions of nonplanned pregnancies.
Nations vary, If a nation gave a 3000$ bonus to persons
choosing to parent above the age of 23 or even 27 the
quality of the parenting as well as the living knowledge
of the parents would be greater; Freakonomics suggests
crime was reduced as a result of abortion with a 23 or 27
year age of parenting crime would be much reduced as
well as social opportunity grown
If China with it one child policy truly went from 1.4
billion to 700 million the eventual resource saving rival
that of an entire Unite States thus an automatic bacteria
terminates pregnancy is currently valued as well as
environmentally beneficial
notably this bacterial genome if attached to a virus could
create recurring automatic presence always preventing
unplanned pregnancy
"children of men"
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Children_of_Men
[williamsmatt, Oct 02 2008]
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Well thought out idea. However i must [-] due to my fear that the bacteria might develop resistance to the 'conception drug' designed to kill it, thus creating a widespread total infertility STD. |
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90% of all the cells in the space occupied by a human body are actually nonhuman bacterial cells. Most of all those cells of all types coexist in symbiosis. Perhaps one of those bacterial types could be recruited for this purpose. |
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So, parenthood would become opt-in rather than opt-out? I like it. |
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This is way over my head but I think you are talking about a bacteria that mimics what the first sperm is supposed to do, block further sperm, so I like it, though [gomer] has a point, so I will abstain till you have a rebuttal. |
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/a drug specific to the bacteria/ or penicillin, or any one of a host of other antibiotics? Not sure this is safe, either when it works (chronic, transmissible bacterial infection, causing temporary infertility) or when it doesn't (unplanned pregnancies). Novel idea, but I suggest it is not feasible in reality. |
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Limit parents to those above the age of 27? Female fertility drops pretty rapidly from there on out, and the chance of certain genetic defects increases rapidly. 23, maybe, but humans are simply designed to have children while fairly young, modern career pressures notwithstanding. |
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// but humans are simply designed to have children while fairly young//
What a stupid design authority. |
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"yo gonna put spirographs in ma WHAT??" |
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Dunno, isn't this genetic modification? (i.e. 'just add mutagens') |
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Granted, you added a bunch of details around that, but you could also just add mutagens to a woman to allow them to seal up their oocytes in a little pouch, only released to the attentions of visiting sperm via activation of a new oocyte-pouch muscle. This way fertility can be controlled purely through mental will. |
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Every known bacteria is curable. A concern here might be that only the richest 9/10 of the planet would bother with the conception permitting drug; one dose of erythromycin cures Gonorrhea at less than a dollar; a conception permitting drug might be like that |
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Also, if it hopped species the other primates might not know to look for ConceiveNow at their local Rite-Aid |
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regarding a good way to render the entire species infertile: As a recurring silent infection
Using a virus genome attached to a bacterial genome with a two start regions does create a DNA sequence that makes either 1) a virus or 2) a bacteria or 3) a virus plus bacterial nontranslated genome or 4) a bacteria plus a nontranslated virus genome |
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If you place a repeating fragile region between two start codons on a virus plus bacterial genome then a certain number of the noncurable viruses will actually specify the bacteria that precludes conception while keeping both genomes at the virus |
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an easier way to render the entire species infertile would be to create a noncurable herpes virus with potent sperm allergen sensitization Even with rare annual flare ups under viral medication the immune system would be primed to destroy sperm |
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the outcomes of this idea is baked, at least in movie form. refer link. worth watching. |
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I like the idea. The risks associated with it make it dangerous for use on humans, humanoids, and possibly all mammals. However, you may have stumbled upon a new and very effective form of pest control, or a final solution to eradicating invasive species. |
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