Posted on 03/08/2015 1:22:18 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
A gay man has spoken of his joy after his mother gave birth to his child, following a surrogate pregnancy.
Anne-Marie Casson, 46, gave birth to baby Miles via C-section, after a donor egg was fertilised with the sperm of her 27-year-old son, Kyle.
Kyle, 27, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire is believed to be the first single man in the UK to have a child through surrogacy, and also the first man to use his own mother as a surrogate host.
But after a High Court ruling, he can now become the child’s legal father, despite also legally being the youngster’s brother.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Mrs Casson said: ‘When he first came to me and his dad, I thought ‘I could do it’. Some people, when they did find out, said “urgh”, but they don’t understand.
‘He is not biologically tied to me, other than he’s my grandson. I love being a parent and for Kyle to experience that, I would do that for him.’
Before Mrs Casson became the surrogate host, Kyle had been rejected by several surrogacy clinics, and turned to his mother as a last resort.
Kyle said: ‘I understand that not everyone will agree with it, but they can have their opinions. I have a son and I am very happy.
‘As long as people can provide a home, and they have the support, I don’t see why anyone should be denied the right to be a parent.
‘Regardless of sexuality, gender, as long as you can provide for the child, I don’t see what the problem is. I paid for it myself, it’s not taxpayers’ money, I own my own home, I am going back to work’.
He added that he would never hide the details of his son’s conception from him.
‘I am never going to lie to him. We will tell him at appropriate stages in his life, you have to be truthful, there is no other way’, he said.
‘He will also know that he is very much wanted.’
Delivering the landmark ruling earlier this week, Mrs Justice Theis said: ‘The arrangement the parties entered into is not one, as far as I am aware, that either this court or the clinic has previously encountered and although highly unusual, is entirely lawful under the relevant statutory provisions.
She added: ‘The papers show that for some considerable time he has wanted to be a father.
‘He waited until his circumstances were settled in terms of a job and home to enable him to provide the care a child would need’.
Although Kyle has said he is ‘very happy’, he admitted that he is aware that the case is highly controversial.
‘I understand that not everyone will agree with it, but they can have their opinions,’ he said.
‘I have a son and I am very happy.’
‘As long as people can provide a home, and they have the support, I don’t see why anyone should be denied the right to be a parent’.
and as a result of his fathers actions HE IS A FREAK !
To quote a TV series line: There’s weird and then there’s Planet Weird.
Unfortunately, this is more than weird. Social and moral taboos exist for good reason, having always been supported by the majority. As same-sex marriage takes root, foisted and practiced by a minuscule minority, smashing taboos at warp speed is doing little more than hurl us down a long road of devolution.
In the words of Ol’ Foul Ron, “Millenium hand and shrimp! Bugger it!”
And in the stench of Ol’ Foul Ron, this stinks to High Heaven.
Where’s Sam Vimes when we need him?
Oh my yes, this is going to send the rebels to blues city if not yet to hell itself, and they will be without a clue as to why.
God is there all the time warning us that if we muck with love we get... hate.
Somehow I knew this was going to be from a British newspaper.
We’re about 10 years behind them as far as decadence.
They took all the love that goes into the creation of a baby and turned it into something so disgusting.. so vile. I can’t imagine how that poor baby is going to go through life with a mentally ill, self absorbed father, no mother and his parents that condone it all.
Not even Corporal Nobbs’ family tree is that twisted.
*chuckle*
A Czechoslovakian study on incest showed that children born to first-degree related parents (siblings, parent - child) were 40 to 50 percent more likely to have severe genetic birth defects (hemophilia, congenital organ failure, congenital blindness, etc.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201210/the-problem-incest
If this was a donated egg, then Mom would be the "oven" but it wouldn't be her "bun" genetically speaking, right?
But, I wonder if the genes of the surrogate mother don't somehow "seep" into the fetus. I mean, she has to have some sort of hookup to feed it, right?
I suppose the scientists say "no" but it seems odd that it doesn't.
The genetics of getting sperm from an artificial insemination of a close relative are the exact same as getting pregnant through sex with said person. Though most of the time, the sperm bank gives kids problems by not realizing the donor and the recipient are closely related. A person who donates many times also unwittingly creates a place where people are know half-siblings without realizing it.
http://www.ibtimes.com/single-sperm-donor-sired-150-children-accidental-incest-concern-309764
The article says the egg was donated, but if it says who it was donated from, I missed it.
Do women donate eggs like a man would donate sperm? Surely not... a man's donation doesn't involve surgery.
So, I guess the question is who did he get to donate the egg?
I'm sympathetic to traditional couples who want a baby, but I'm not sure these methods would be something I'd want personally.
Very brain dead people.
Meet the poster boy for inbreeding.
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/14/how-inbreeding-killed-off-a-line-of-kings/
Depraved and sick.
When they and society gives itself over to this unnatural and evil behavior, there will be no end to the depravity that will come of it.
Having the ability to do something does not necessarily mean that one has the wisdom to decide whether or not to do it.
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