Reality Show to Feature 1000 Men Competing to Impregnate Woman without Sex

LifeSite ^ | July 23, 2004

[NYer]

Reality Show to Feature 1000 Men Competing to Impregnate Woman without Sex

LONDON, July 23, 2004 (LifeSitenews.com) - A proposed television reality show has pushed the boundaries of offence by offering a program in which a thousand men compete for the chance to impregnate a woman by IVF. It is unlikely that the production company, Brighter Pictures, will find a market in the UK; a spokesman for the BBC has already said, "It is absolutely not for the BBC." In its coverage of the intended program, called Make Me A Mum, The Daily Mail has called the idea "sick" and "depraved." The idea has been greeted with public expressions of revulsion from different quarters. At least one British Tory MP has condemned it as "unacceptable."

Josephine Quintavalle, of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, (CORE), said, "I am disgusted. I have never heard of anything that has descended down the scale of bad taste quite like this. CORE is a public interest group focusing on ethical dilemmas surrounding human reproduction, particularly the new technologies of assisted conception. Quintavalle said, "My first thoughts go to the child who will be created - what is he or she going to be told about how they were conceived? And how can any woman want to have a child in this way?"

The program will start with 1000 volunteers who will be selected by the woman on the basis of sex appeal, wealth, fitness and personality. The woman, who is not named, will take fertility drugs to stimulate the production of ova. One will be selected and fertilized by the winning man's sperm by IVF clinicians live on television. The likelihood is that the idea will not pan out for practical reasons. The best IVF clinics in the world can boast, at most, a 15-25% success rate. The producers have approached German television broadcasters who they thing will be more receptive to the idea.

Natalie Hudson, executive Director of Toronto Right to Life commented, "The culture's adolescent fascination with sex has taken a step so low that even the apathetic media is reacting. The Roman Catholic Church warned some thirty years ago that in vitro procedures would turn the human person into a commodity. But even the Church never imagined that the conception of new life would be treated as a media spectacle. What's next, or dare we ask?"

[NYer]

The Roman Catholic Church warned some thirty years ago that in vitro procedures would turn the human person into a commodity. But even the Church never imagined that the conception of new life would be treated as a media spectacle.

"Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife."
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[NYer]

Brave New World ping!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

1,000 men, this might set a record for a circle j-rk.

[Puddleglum]

Someone should inform the men that, as the father, they will be financially responsible for the child for the next 20+ years.

[Right Wing Professor]

The program will start with 1000 volunteers who will be selected by the woman on the basis of sex appeal, wealth, fitness and personality. The woman, who is not named, will take fertility drugs to stimulate the production of ova. One will be selected and fertilized by the winning man's sperm by IVF clinicians live on television. The likelihood is that the idea will not pan out for practical reasons. The best IVF clinics in the world can boast, at most, a 15-25% success rate. The producers have approached German television broadcasters who they thing will be more receptive to the idea.

So I guess a guy selected from 1000 for 'sex appeal, wealth, fitness and personality' would be an übermensch. I can understand why German TV might be interested. Imagine if we could create an entire race of such people. Why, you could call it a master race! Mein Führer, I can walk!

[Rebelbase]

Reality TV has caused me to curtail my television viewing by probably 80% at my house; However, my girlfriend added the western channel at her place so my television viewing there is up 80%.....It's a break even.

[Balto_Boy]

Sperm donor must pay child support.

[Lazamataz]

Reality Show to Feature 1000 Men Competing to Impregnate Woman without Sex

What're they planning on doing??!?? Smearing 'man jelly' on the doorknobs??!??

[MeekOneGOP]

[mtbopfuyn]

What about Make Me a Dad? Oh, never mind.

[Tijeras_Slim]

on the basis of sex appeal, wealth, fitness and personality.

That explains why I didn't get a call.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Reality Show to Feature 1000 Men Competing to Impregnate Woman without Sex And what, exactly, is the fun in that?

[Sgt_Schultze]

I don't know about you, but my favorite reality tv will be starting this week ...

NFL Football

training camps open and the countdown begins!

[Vaduz]

Would it not be a case of who's ya daddy?.

[peteram]

LOL!!!! That was my laugh for the morning!
Thanks MeekOneGOP

[Savage Beast]

"A spokesman for the BBC has already said, 'It is absolutely not for the BBC.'"

What pathetic pretensions.

Perhaps a few decades ago, when the BBC was respected throughout the world...but today's BBC?! What a joke!

[SunkenCiv]

The Daily Mail has called the idea "sick" and "depraved."

IVF? Nah... it would be sick and depraved if 1000 men tried to impregnate one woman after first getting her drunk.

[KarlInOhio]

Just take a look at this excerpt of the contestant list:

127. Bill Clinton
198. Billy Clinton
209. William Clinton
314. Will Clinton
447. Billy Jeff Blythe
478. William Blythe
656. Clinton, William Jefferson
757. Bill Al Gore
813. Monica Lewinsky