Posted on 04/11/2009 11:25:28 AM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
DALLAS – Nikolas Colton Evans had talked about how much he wanted to have a child, but the 21-year-old died after he was punched and hit his head on the ground in a fight. That would have been the end of it, if it weren't for his determined mother, a court order and a urologist. Missy Evans has harvested her dead son's sperm and hopes to find a surrogate and one day raise her son's child. It's a decision that ethicists say raises troubling questions; one called the potential offspring a "replacement child." Evans isn't concerned about what others might think. She says she is only doing what her son would have wanted.
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Where do all of these fertility freaks come from??
Ethics, hell, it’s creepy and wrong!
Whatever.
It is non of our business.
Yeah, its just too icky - I can’t believe they even thought of it.
Yeah. It's what her son wanted.
Let me guess whom this selfless mother voted for.
ML/NJ
If she has the $$$, “ethics” won’t stop her. The artificial reproduction industry is all about money.
Medical ethics is none of our business?
Evidently there are only ethical concerns when someone wants to bring a child to life.
Murdering millions of babies......no problem.
>Ethics, hell, it’s creepy and wrong!
Howso? Is it wrong to want a child? Is it wrong to want to honor someone you loved?
No, it is far more wrong to treat an unexpected child as ‘unwanted’ and to kill someone who had no hand in whether they would exist or not.
And how is it creepy? I should hope that when I die my organs will be used in transplants... after all, I won’t be using them after I’m dead. Is that [donating organs] so radically different from harvesting/using sperm? After someone is dead, they can hardly be made to account for the actions of the living.
One DEAD son
One grieving mother
One POTENTIAL living human being
WHEN DOES THIS BECOME EVERYBODY’S DAMN BUSINESS??
Sometimes, wisdom is keeping your mouth shut. Sometimes!!!
Sometimes, wisdom is speaking up. Sometimes!!!
True wisdom is knowing when to...... ?
“Sometimes, Mrs. Evans, it’s better this way.”
I don’t think it’s a moral issue at all. As long as the parents have the obligation to raise the grandchild, it’s none of anyone’s business.
But they don't. The father is dead. The mother would be a contract-hiree with no obligation beyond the delivery. (If that ... suppose she decide she wanted to abort partway through pregnancy? Would the courts uphold contract law over her "choice"?)
And the grandmother, who did such a great job with her son, could charge the taxpayer, like millions of other "parents."
Actually, it is our business. This woman’s son had no way of knowing he’d die young and that his mother would commission a surrogate to bear his children — using sperm harvested from his corpse. I would not want this done to me if I died prematurely — need I get a lawyer to draw up the papers that will prevent that from happening if I should die? Perhaps.
I agree. I’d rather celebrate life and someone to love and nurture it. The only problem I have with it is that there will most likely be left over embryos from the process that will either result in something like octo-mom or end up being expiramented on thanks to the Obama administration.
Did this young man explicitly state that he wants to produce a child that he’ll never see because he’s dead? I think not. He wanted a family, which is different then donating his DNA to be combined with a stranger to produce a child that will never know its father.
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