Posted on 03/21/2007 8:32:11 PM PDT by Calpernia
I take it you are a big supporter of "designer babies" and you think that "globs of cells" should be tested in the womb and if everything doesn't meet the parents specifications then the "glob of cells" should just be "discarded"?
The woman's husband is not the baby's biological father, how does this translate to "something wrong" with the baby (which you refer to as an "it").
Do you also support "post birth abortions" where if a child of say fifteen doesn't meet their parents' expectations, they are simply "discarded"?
This just goes to show on how many levels this kind of tampering is a really touchy thing.
Consider this: the clinic should be liable for the expenses associated with raising Jessica. How much? When she's 18 and ready for college, tuition should be around $80-100K by that time. And there's food, clothes, medical up until then!
Howard J. Stern? Is this Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer?
They probably liked you when you were two or three.
I have a feeling they love the thought of $$$$$$$$ more than they love the little girl.
There was nothing "wrong with it"! The child is the innocent potential victim here. Yes, the lab made a mistake, but the child should absolutely not be made to pay the price for that mistake.
I think the parents are being quite selfish. A child isn't like carpet, where you send it back if it's the wrong color.
What if they had conceived naturally, but the child was born with defects? Would they be anxious to be rid of it then?
Perhaps they should just think of the mistake like a birth defect of one kind or another. It's a challenge, but certainly not an insurmountable one.
I see you found an even stupider statement than the one about the skin getting lighter over time. Actually, it's not as dumb as it sounds. My son was born with a dark tan, which faded over a few days, until eventually he was pink like all the other little white babies. Maybe it was all that time I spent at the beach. ; ) But I'm going to guess this baby was quite a bit darker.
What child of 15 has ever met their parents' expectations? If post-birth-abortions were allowed up to that age, there would be about three adults in the world.
What child of 15 has ever met their parents' expectations? If post-birth-abortions were allowed up to that age, there would be about three adults in the world.
I probably shouldn't have suggested it, the culture of death will run with it.
Who's to say that this doesn't happen all the time, and is only noticed when the baby's skin color is not as expected?
The whole problem here is a lack of unconditional love. Any child they have will find out quickly enough that Mommy and Daddy only love them if they meet certain standards.
The parents attitude is very eugenics based:
- They do not look at this little baby as a child of God in her own right. They look at her as a possession.
- They lack any sort of faith that would show them that God has a purpose in everything he does.
- They were the ones who went to the doctor and asked him to play god -- now they are dissatisfied with his human efforts. I wonder if they have even considered the fact that several fertilized eggs have already been discarded or are slated to be killed for use in some macabre science experiment.
"Only the useless ones."
That was this thread.
74 responses and no one mentioned this part:
"The mother was born in the Dominican Republic "and has a complexion, skin coloration and facial characteristics typical of that region'' while the father is Caucasian, the judge quoted the Andrewses' papers."
Sounds to me like the mother was born with dark skin herself but the baby's skin was even darker.
They expected a hue between the husband's and hers, I guess.
For the sake of the child, they've got to stop this. My kids don't "look like" me and two have dark skin - I'm an adoptive parent. Those kids have enough issues to deal with when they are wholeheartedly loved for who they are - she sure doesn't need her mom telling the world she was a "mistake"!
I guess that can happen with invitro.
A question arises, though.....If she could produce eggs and he could produce sperm, I wonder why they went this route?
*discarded????? A human being????? We're talking about a person here.
Unless you mean like an old shoe that you don't want anymore because it doesn't match your clothes?
Or do you mean murder the baby before it was born?
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