She can even get a…what is it ISDN?
ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
Anyone read this novel?
It’s titled Living Proof.
I actually started reading again recently and checked this book out of the library.
Let me give you an idea of what goes on, without ruining it for anyone.
This book deals with what happens when the separation of church and state, isn’t so separated, that the views of the religion get into politics, policy, law. IVF clinics are watched and inspected, because, it could be considered first degree murder to have/perform an abortion, to destroy an embryo (like for stem cell research), and pregnant women are monitored by a caseworker and can be fined if they do not take the right vitamins, etc. and it could be considered manslaughter if they don’t abide, and so on. Why is all this happening? Because of religious views entering the political realm. They belief (contrary to MEDICAL FACT, facts of reality, as many do today in our world) that an embyo has been given a soul by God, and that they are an actual human being with individual rights.
The story centers upon a certain IVF clinic and their increasing number of patients has gotten the interest of the DEP, Department of Embryo Protection and they send people there to find out why. The doctor there has MS, and stem cell research which is banned, is one of the things that could potentially save her from her death. So, I would love to say more, but really shouldn’t. There is also a character that deals with doubt, doubting his faith in his religion, which I think was a clever inclusion by Kira Peikoff, because those readers that are religious or hold such views, might perhaps change their mind about certain things… or maybe not. So if some readers read not with their minds, but with their hearts, I hope their heart goes out to the actual human beings in this novel…
Hell of a way to debut a novel, dealing with such a ‘hot topic’ of abortion, when life beings, when a human potential becomes an actual. She’s working on a second novel. Yipee. Can’t wait.
Kira takes after her father :smartass: :
While reading the Voices For Reason blog, the latest entry is about:
Dr. Keith Lockitch, on The Daily Caller, Will FDA Choke off promising adult stem cell research?
"Are you free to use your own body’s cells to treat your medical condition? Under the rule of the FDA, apparently not. A U.S. District Court has sided with the FDA in its lawsuit against Regenerative Sciences, stopping the company from treating orthopedic injuries by culturing and re-injecting a patient’s own stem cells.
Adult stem cell therapies are relatively new; their promise is only starting to be realized, as in a recent study, which saw the safe regrowth of damaged heart tissue in 17 heart attack patients. Yet just as these first successful treatments are emerging, the FDA is flexing its regulatory muscle."
As I have been going through many podcasts of her father’s, I came across this one where he interviews her on her novel:
http://www.peikoff.com/2011/06/27/i-interviewed-my-daughter-kira-peikoff-on-her-new-novel/