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this post is really late and I have no excuse and if I don't get the points for it, that's fine, because I'm not putting that much effort into it anyway, and I'm sure I'm not saying anything new. But basically, I've been thinking about some of the presentations we've seen, and I think quite a few of them come down to power and ownership, at the personal level, at the family level, and at the governmental level.

Cosmetic surgery has a lot to do with body ownership... Does god/nature "own" your body, or do you have the right to change it as you see fit? This idea gets more complex with designer babies, since the parents may feel like it's their right to choose for their child, but others might think that the baby has its own rights.

This would lead me to birth control, which to me is also entirely an issue of who owns the body. Does god own your body? Does your husband own your body? Or do you? And do you own the body of your hypothetical fetus, or does the hypothetical fetus have its own rights?

Incest is more to do with power at the family level. It upsets family power structures or our idea of what family should be, and we're afraid that it would introduce societal instability. In other words, when your dad is your lover, he's not really just your dad anymore, so it makes family relationships (and who has the power) more unclear.

A lot of these topics made us uncomfortable, and we may have wondered if the government would be justified in imposing laws on people to control their behavior (in terms of incest, steroid use, or "too much" plastic surgery). I guess I really have nothing new to add, but I thought it was interesting that we saw some of the same recurring themes in a lot of the posters!