Posted on 06/12/2010 6:56:37 AM PDT by GonzoII
"Donor-conceived Alana Sveta tells her story....She describes how she often tells people that her father is dead so she will not have to tell them the truth about being conceived by a sperm donor, a fact that she considers “creepy” and “disgusting.”
“It embarrasses me,” she said.
My heartfelt sympathies, beautiful sister.
This is the unfortunate result of the "Me, myself and I" generation that "can do whatever they want" in their "private" lives. You see, it's "their" business.
Ping.
They would prefer not to be here? Geez.
So! How is this any different from a quick hookup with a person you have never met before and may never see again?
I didn't catch that in the article..I think they would prefer to be here in the normal way.
Kick it up a few notches. How many “people of means” are now totally “creating” designer babies, using only a check book?
Michael Jackson did it that we know of. He bought the sperm, the egg, the surrogate mom. Then he took these kids home. All he put into it was money. Yet he got to keep the resulting human beings, virtually as his property.
And I’m sure he’s not the only one. And some of these checkbook “parents” might be creating designer children for some very dark purposes.
No different, if the child never knows who the dad is.
Very different, if they have some kind of relationship to the father. Even just knowing who he is.
They would prefer to know their father.
Taking no comfort in this study - but from the first test tube baby’s birth in 1978 (Louise Brown) IVF seemed intuitively, unnatural and wrong.
Having been flamed on many threads for not understanding the *desire* of the birth mother - and the discarding of embryos - perhaps we will better understand the wisdom of the biblical rules for sexual mores, marriage and parenting.
This is different from adoptions in what way?
You raise good points about designer babies. But face it, being conceived by Michael Jackson the normal way would still result in a screwed up kid, if raised by Michael Jackson. It’s not so much the conception, its the raising.
Now when we get into designer genes, we get into serious issues, I would agree.
Now I thought it was “The more babies the better?”
Many sperm doner kids not only have no father but also have two mommies. People are selfish. If a woman can not develop a normal relationship with a man then they shouldn’t have a child. We already no Kids in singleparent family kids regardless of conception are born with a disadvantage.
I know several adopted kids. They are told the truth. Your mom just wasn’t capable of raising you for this or that reason. So we became your parents, because we could give you all the love. It works out well, in the cases I know of.
But there’s something creepy about “mommy just wanted a baby, so she bought some anonymous sperm.”
NOt much. Who wants to be conceived that way, either?
Adoptions aren’t financial.
These kids are “bought” like commodities.
A guy who donates his sperm is likely to be weird.
A woman who receives a sperm donation is likely to be weird.
The offspring of two likely weird people is likely weird.
Seems to support Darwin.
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