There are some benefits from organs grown in a lab, and sure, I would love to have a phallus that was the real thing. what bothers me is that sometimes we take things too far. At this point, maybe we are only making organs for those who would have had a long life were it not for their organ replacement, but my fear is that it won't stop there. Take implants for instance. There are legitimate uses such as the woman who has lost a breast or a man who has lost a testicle and both the woman and man feel like less of their gender without them. We then took implants and started using them to give women with normal breasts into double Ds or putting in pec implants in guys who want a muscular looking chest but don't want to do the work to get them. Implants are not organs sure, but they are an example if technology that was started to restore something that was lost to using them just as frequently or more so for asthetic reasons.
The change doesn't happen overnight. We get used to the procedure of growing something for those who need it, then it becomes something we use for beautification. We don't want to age, so we get face lifts, botox injections, breast implants, pec implants and the list goes on. Where there is money to be made, greed sometimes takes the place of common sense. The "improvements" go to those with all the money, and leave those without money no way to obtain the results of the technology. I'm not saying that all Dr.s are money hungry, but if one patient can pay for a new kidney and the other person is poor, who gets the kidney? Theoretically, it shouldn't be based on money but rather need. That doesn't always happen though.
We just need to be careful when we start growing body parts and have some serious regulation.
sam1234
