Posted on 03/07/2015 3:10:41 PM PST by beaversmom
A mother has helped her 24-year-old son become a father by carrying his child as a surrogate. In the procedure, the first of its kind, Anne-Marie Casson, 46, became pregnant using a donor egg fertilised by her son Kyle’s sperm.
Kyle, gay and single, had wanted to be a father “for some considerable time”. After surrogacy clinics across the country turned him away, and a female relative who had volunteered to be the carrier developed medical difficulties, Mrs Casson and her husband, Alan, decided she should step in and be the surrogate mother. A family court judge ruled the situation was “entirely lawful” and Kyle has been allowed to adopt the baby – his son but also, legally, his brother.
Lawyers point out that family members are increasingly acting as surrogates in the UK, but the Cassons’ case is unique: Kyle is the first single man in the country to have a child through surrogacy and the first to use his mother as the carrier. “I cried and cried,” said Kyle, describing his happiness at his son Miles’s birth. “I could not believe it.”
Kyle’s longing to be a father highlights issues affecting gay men and women – but also the one in six heterosexual couples in Britain who have problems conceiving. They will know first-hand the plight of a young person desperate to be a parent. Baby hunger turns a stroll in the park into a torment because of the mummies and daddies pushing their toddlers on swings. It makes dinner-party conversation about good schools painful, and the school-run traffic bitter as well as frustrating. At its worst, baby hunger sours friendships and destroys marriages.
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Exactly. Do it 'til the cows come home, I don't care. Just don't tell me I have to find it acceptable or normal.
Nothing wrong with surrogacy. I mean it is legal, so if a mother of a gay son wants to help him be a dad, what is the problem? Now, if a law passed that outlawed surrogacy for gays, that is discrimination.
The mother/surrogate mother/grandmother should be ashamed of herself. That poor little child.
I can hear the conversation in a decade or so.....
Well, my son, you see, I am a homosexual. Being a homosexual, it is natural that I am unable to have children. God’s creation was to give each child a father and a mother. Because of this, I had to find another way to make sure I was not without a child in my life, because that’s more important to me than my child having a normal family.
There was this female friend who was going to carry my baby for me. She was going to be artificially inseminated with my sperm. She was unable to go through with this plan. Your grandmother, my mother, being a complete air-head, decided to step up to the plate and carry my child for me. You may view this as us being incredibly selfish and shallow, but I assure you, this was all done for you.
You see, we wanted you to have the most bizarre story of everyone in your class. It’s not good to have normal children these days with a boring mother and father situation. We have to make sure that kids are as screwed up as they can possibly be, so this was what our family did for you.
You’re welcome.
That's the whole point of this "marriage" fiasco.
Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, therefore this homo’s mother, and father probably aided, and abetted that choice, and she is further aiding, and abetting his lifestyle by her permissive actions.
The child is doomed IMO.
No
What if not everybody’s happy? I don’t believe in moral relativism. The possibilities for unintended consequences are infinite.
No, I don’t think its ok. Weird. What does it have to do with my business?
I don’t think being a homosexual is ok either.
I saw a similarity to a mother that will enable her homosexual son to have a child unnaturally and your business decision. I wondered if you did.
The mother, the idiot gay kid and the judge all need counseling.....QUICK
The best description of the situation I’ve read.
Nope.
It's the height of irony that at the same time that "critical thinking" was introduced to government schools, logic was booted.
I guess "critical thinking" really means Doublethink.
When it comes to human reproduction, one or more religions rule.
When it comes to animal reproduction, common sense rules ... the common sense situation essentially comes to pairing available males and females ... and it works.
If your son was charged with murder, would your basis of judgment be on his side?
Be happy ... Stick with Aristotle ... Aristotle's "virtues," from his "Ethics," are ... courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, magnanimity, proper ambition, patience, truthfulness, wittiness, friendliness, modesty and righteous indignation.
It's too bad that his ethics is not taught in schools.
I don’t believe in moral relativism. Period.
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