Marching Off to War, A Few Million Sperm Short

Perhaps the way to peace in Lebanon is to institute a regular ritual of banking sperm for soldiers going off to war, not so that they can father posthumous children but so that they have, well, less sperm.

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Perhaps the way to peace in Lebanon is for the right of Israel to exist be recognized by Hizbollah and others who pose an existential threat to Israel.

- by Frederick Stone on Aug 9, 2006 at 12:47 PM | link

Presumably efforts such as this will be opposed by anyone who opposes gay adoption. After all, freezing a soldier's semen is a step towards intentionally creating a child that doesn't have the "normal" complement of one mother and one father.

- by Chris MacDonald on Aug 9, 2006 at 2:39 PM | link

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