File this under Brave New World meets Focus on the Family homophobic prenatal modification scary shit!
Dr. Maria New (let’s call her Dr. Frankenhomophobe), has been administering –without informed consent -- the experimental drug dexamethsone (dex), to pregnant women who might be carrying children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a condition that has been associated with girls with intersexuality and also tomboyish-ness and lesbianism, according to the Huffington Post.
Despite reports that the drug is not approved for pregnant women, doesn’t cure CAH – although it has been known to reduce some masculine traits associated with CAH – and that it causes birth defects in animal, Dr. Maria New Frankenhomophobe is hawking it as a miracle cure for lesbianism in the womb and for ensuring that girls grow up to submit to sex with men and be fruitful and multiply.
Dr. Alice Dreger, who is trying to ban the off-label use of the drug wrote on the Hasting's Center Blog:
[New and colleagues] go on to suggest that the work might offer some insight into the influence of prenatal hormones on the development of sexual orientation in general. "That this may apply also to sexual orientation in at least a subgroup of women is suggested by the fact that earlier research has repeatedly shown that about one-third of homosexual women have (modestly) increased levels of androgens." They "conclude that the findings support a sexual-differentiation perspective involving prenatal androgens on the development of sexual orientation."
She goes on to say that the point of administering an experimental drug that causes birth defects in animals is so that girls will conform to the heterosexist expectations of their parents.
Let's get action star and proud mother of a daughter who's got Montenegro Style, Angelina Jolie, to roundhouse kick some common sense into Dr. New.
Here’s the full report.
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