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Extreme Prenatal Genetic Testing
…Our testing has gotten a bit more advanced since the last time you two were in here. Would you like to know more about your embryo? …Would you like to know her sexual orientation?
O.K.
Ruby is heterosexual.
Phew. I mean, I have neutral feelings about this. I mean, obviously, I have no issues with—
Shhh. This is a safe zone. Ruby is definitively heterosexual, but she will experiment on and off in college and shortly thereafter. These experiments will be motivated by her emo-ish boyfriend, Lucas Adler-Zeitz, who is currently a Grade B embryo just a few drawers down from her.
A Grade B? Couldn’t Ruby do better?
Oh, she will. She’s going to marry Robert Westinghouse, who I believe is about to turn fifteen.
Wow. That’s a big age difference.
Well, she’s going to be “that kind of girl.” Ooh, this is quite positive. On the tenth chromosome here, she has a high H.S.C. factor.
What’s H.S.C.?
High-school-cool factor. By tenth grade, she’ll be making fun of the loser girl who still draws horses and smells like soup, instead of being the one who’s made fun of herself.
I’m not so sure how I feel about that.
Yes, you are.
Fine. We’re relieved.
Any other questions?
If I may… never mind.
You can ask.
This is embarrassing.
She’s going to Penn.
Oh. O.K.
It’s an Ivy.
Yeah, but it’s the Ivy about which people have to say “it’s an Ivy” afterward.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, she’s going to get into Harvard. But she’s going to choose Penn.
That’s insane. We’ll see about that.
Sure you will…
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/13r38Z2
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Cartoon by Tom Toro. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/TWHp5J
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Lauren Collins responds to Ross Douthat’s New York Times article lamenting the declining American birthrate: “…might not women also be hesitating to have children, or struggling to find a way to do so, in a culture whose conception of family life is so primitive?”
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/R5HvJo
Photograph: Indigo/Getty.
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Cartoon by Glen Le Lievre. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/SRYYCQ
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Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
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“Finding Fernanda”: Pictures from an Investigation
“Finding Fernanda,” the first book by the photojournalist and investigative reporter Erin Siegal, uncovers pervasive fraud in the international adoption industry, specifically between Guatemala and the U.S. It’s not a photo book, but photographs are central to its conception.
On Saturday, Siegal will celebrate the publication of “Finding Fernanda” at powerHouse Books in Brooklyn. For more photographs from her reporting: http://nyr.kr/sM1ykI
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(Source: newyorker.com)
