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libfemme ( 04/19/2004, 04:58:12 )Movie ScriptHere’s my premise for Hollywood – “Pregnant Woman on Run from the Clone Police.”A couple in their late 30’s decides to have start a family. Both have been very responsible in their lives. Postponed marriage to finish college instead. Become professionals. Saved their money to buy a house and pay off debts. Now in their late 30’s they feel mature enough to put a child first in their lives and so decide to start a family. However, the woman goes into premature menopause. The family doctor tells her that the irony is the healthiest time to get pregnant is in your teens. After years of campaigning by concerned parents, churches and educational institution the campaign against teenage pregnancy has worked. But while the culture has changed in one generation, our genes have not.99.9% of that time humans have been on this planet the average life span of a woman was about 30. The earlier she had children the more she was likely to leave before she died. We’re descended from those early ovulators.Our heroine is crushed, but she is not willing to accept childlessness just because of natural selection. The couple go to a fertility doctor, but he tells them invitro fertilization only works if you have something to fertilize. Without ovulation, the woman has no eggs to begin with. The woman then says an egg is just a cell. Her body has millions of cells. Turn one of them into an egg.The doctor tells them it is illegal. By the laws passed in Congress no human cell can be “cloned”. The wife is a biologist. She talks to her colleagues at the university about how animal are cloned in the agricultural department. But her colleagues tell her the UN Commission regularly inspects their labs to make certain no human DNA is ever used there. They sympathize with her problem but cannot risk helping her. Still she decides to attempt the procedure in secret on her own. She acquires cow eggs from a scientific supply house. She practices taking out the nucleus of the cows egg. Finally one night she takes some skin cells from her mouth and denucleates them. With her human DNA still in the pipette she injects it into one of the cytoplasm of the empty cow egg.A zap of electricity and the “human DNA/cow cytoplasm” cell begins to divide. She watches as the cluster of cells forms a blast cyst. She knows the tiny collection will die in a few days if it does not receive nourishment. But if implanted they could develop in the child she wants so badly. Finally she tells her husband, a physician what she has done and begs him to implant the cluster of cells inside her womb. He hesitates, mindful of the tremendous odds that this will work and reluctant to subject her to an invasive procedure for so small an outcome. But she wins him over and he implants the ball of cells in her uterus. A few days later her body is registering positive on a pregnancy test. Careful to keep this rare pregnancy, perhaps her last chance to have a baby, she makes an appointment with an obstetrician she does not know. An amino test shows the embryo to be normal. But the physican does a comparison with the woman’s own blood looking for genetic problems. Unable to believe the results, the doctor calls the woman for another test. The woman becomes suspicious that the doctor may realize the baby she carries has her exact same DNA sequence. She doesn’t return. She changes doctors. The lab technican mentions the anomaly to a friend, who reports it to FDA. The FDA goes knocking on the woman’s door. There has to be a chase. Any good plot has a chase, so the woman and husband go on the run. But they are professional, respectable people. No match for criminal investigators and they are caught. More to the point the woman is truly concerned about her fetus and wants prenatal care. The story makes the news. There is a woman carrying a cloned fetus. The law is clear. She must be imprisoned for the next ten years, along with her husband who performed the implantation. Should the fetus be allowed to be born? Obviously it is illegal to force a woman to have an abortion against her will. How can the couple raise the baby if they are imprison for 10 years? The social services step in to find the baby a foster home. Ten years later, the couple finally get out of prison. Social services has lost contact with their child and give them the run around before they can track the child down. She is in a juvenile home, filled with emotional problems from years of being “abandoned” by her parents. Her bonding years are over and she can never establish a normal relationship with her biological parents now. A reporter hearing the story, writes an article proving that “cloning” is dangerous to the child. No “normal” child can be born from cloning. Cloned child feel “different” from other children, and suffer low self esteem. The story points out how wise society was to pass laws banning human cloning.
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