Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mitt Romney’s Eldest Son Has Twins Via Surrogate
ABC News ^ | May 4, 2012 | Emily Friendman

Posted on 05/04/2012 2:07:33 PM PDT by madprof98

O’HARA, Pa. – Tagg Romney, the eldest son of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, announced via Twitter that he and his wife Jen have new twin boys, delivered by a surrogate today.

“Happy 2 announce birth of twin boys David Mitt and William Ryder. Big thanks to our surrogate. Life is a miracle,” Tagg tweeting, linking to a photo of himself and one of his new sons.

This the second time that Tagg, 42, and his wife, Jen,39, have used a surrogate. The same surrogate was used for the twins carried their youngest son Jonathan, who was born in August of 2010. Their other three children were not born via surrogacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ivf; liberalsonparade; moralabsolutes; romney; surrogate; taggromney
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 201-212 next last
To: TexasFreeper2009

The simple explanation, and the usual reason in most of these cases, is that the wife is infertile or has had multiple failures to carry to term. She is 39 after all, and if she hasn’t already had children her time is up.

Everyone I know who has been in this position has already tried all sorts of fertility treatments. This is the last option.


41 posted on 05/04/2012 2:50:53 PM PDT by buwaya
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

I’m happy for them.


42 posted on 05/04/2012 2:51:02 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SuzyQue
Just as Sarah Palin isn’t going to stand up for traditional family values after her teenaged daughter became pregnant out of wedlock?

and you see these two events as identical?

fear for the republic.

43 posted on 05/04/2012 2:51:45 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Cincinna
What happened to you so-called conservatives? Surrogate mothers, rent-a- womb, using fetus stem cells for research; where is your moral consistency? ?

How did you make the leap from surrogate mothers to fetal stem cell research?

One option creates life, the other extinguishes it. I think there is a HUGE difference between the two.

44 posted on 05/04/2012 2:52:45 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Running in circles and screaming is not a strategy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

Surrogate motherhood or Rent-a- womb, is going against God’s will.
Most evangelicals, Catholics, and orthodox Jews are against this practice.


45 posted on 05/04/2012 2:53:22 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

Just come right out and say you don’t like the Romneys.
I know I don’t. Here they basically rented a womb ....

And what kind of stupid name is `Tag’ anyway?

Missionary position? Hey, too much information girlfriend!
This isn’t The View: Spare us the details of your sex life, OK?

Let’s get back to Mitt. I can see the grandkids going to `Tag’ and asking, “Um, Tag, Dad—is granddad alive? He hasn’t moved all day ..... “

Guess I told the gun=grabbing, abortionist, homo Rhomnoids,
huh Tex?
Don’t let the lefty bass-turds grind you down: Screw `em!


46 posted on 05/04/2012 2:54:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (It's the Mitt Romney Show! Howdy doody, boys & girls. Well .... it's vomit-swallowin' time again!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

None of this is any of my business, or anyone else’s. I don’t “get” why they have to announce a birth as surrogate (tho I guess it’s pretty obvious his wife wasn’t carrying). 3 children born within 2 years by the same surrogate seems a bit much, given they already had three children born without a surrogate. Maybe it’d be more understandable to us more traditional types had they not had the first three.


47 posted on 05/04/2012 2:54:52 PM PDT by EDINVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

So who was the surrogate, the father or the mother?


48 posted on 05/04/2012 2:55:19 PM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: the invisib1e hand

The teenage Palin had her baby naturally. The conception was natural, magical, and blessed. The conception was not due to a doctor breaking the egg-wall, injecting the sperm into it, and then implanting it in a rented-womb.

AI is evil and twisted. Those doing AI(doctors, “parents”, and surrogates) should be in jail.

Let’s factory produce the babies... just need a sperm, an egg, an a womb!


49 posted on 05/04/2012 2:58:49 PM PDT by sagar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Old Sarge
Maybe they borrowed one of Mitt's surrogates...


50 posted on 05/04/2012 2:59:21 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: EEGator
Two children are born, and most here are spewing hate...lovely.

Exactly...the tone on this thread is pretty low.

Happens a lot around here these days.

51 posted on 05/04/2012 2:59:39 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001. NEVER FORGET.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: sagar

o. m. gosh.

Rape makes babies naturally? I thought your problem was that the Romney children weren’t conceived “traditionally”.

I cannot continue this discussion with a person who doesn’t understand the difference between natural and traditional.

natural- existing in or formed by nature ( opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.

There is no way that the Romney’s children wouldn’t have been conceived naturally. They are not artificial children. A sperm met an egg, creating an embryo. It was implanted. Just because YOU don’t like how or where that embryo implanted doesn’t make those children or AI wrong.

Comments like yours give conservative sites like FR a bad name.


52 posted on 05/04/2012 3:00:37 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: sagar

Maybe Sarah should’ve claimed Bristol was carrying her baby as a surrogate. Libs would’ve ate that up as a fine progressive example, right?


53 posted on 05/04/2012 3:01:25 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: SandyInSeattle

They are both part of the progressive social policy of eugenics and sex selection. Part of the left’s agenda for “womens reproductive health”.

Since surrogate mothers get $50k and up for participating in this very unnatural act, what about regular folks? Will that be on Romney’s health care agenda for all women? Paid for by the American taxpayer? A very slippery slope!

I guess the Mormons don’t believe in adoption.


54 posted on 05/04/2012 3:01:26 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: haircutter

“after reading the posts here...
I checked to make sure I didn’t accidentally go to Democrat Underground...sure reads like some of their stupid insulting remarks.”

Well it is going to become really annoying real soon. Since Jim Rob’s manifesto this morning, I am sure we will be seeing the closet Romney clan come out in droves. There will be the anti romney clan of course and well, like oil and water, they will not mix.


55 posted on 05/04/2012 3:01:42 PM PDT by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: JediJones
Maybe they borrowed one of Mitt's surrogates...

now that's funny.

56 posted on 05/04/2012 3:02:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: the invisib1e hand

Don’t be silly.

That’s not a very effective way of trying to deny what I said.


57 posted on 05/04/2012 3:02:54 PM PDT by SuzyQue
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

Congrats to the Romneys. Twins!


58 posted on 05/04/2012 3:06:59 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: unkus

Non-traditional reproduction and pregnancy termination is a great risk to society. Societies across the globe are experiencing the fallout from these on a massive scale. Reproduction is a fundemental, time-tested bedrock for preserval of the species and it’s very dangerous to mess with something like that. We now have a massive gender imbalance in China and aging, dying societies in every western country being replaced by unfriendly immigrant populations. We also have the possibility for single parents or homosexual couples to have children, an environment for raising children that is unproven and unlikely to be beneficial to their health. We also have the cheapening of life by reducing it to a test tube controlled in a laboratory. It gives human beings the power to make life and death decisions over our offspring, which can only lead to a moral coarsening towards respect for life and encourage infanticide, experimentation, abuse and exploitation of our young to create medicines for ourselves, etc. And then there’s Octomom...


59 posted on 05/04/2012 3:08:27 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: surrey
They already have 3 other children that were not born via a surrogate.
This is what is puzzling without more information. They already had 3 children so this surrogacy thing is either creepy or suspicious. And I don't want it to be either as it will be a big distraction during the campaign.
60 posted on 05/04/2012 3:09:44 PM PDT by chickadee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 201-212 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson