Posted on 08/16/2008 11:43:38 AM PDT by wagglebee
JERUSALEM, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A rabbi at a religious conference said Wednesday night that a woman "who decides to have a baby out of wedlock by means of a sperm donation is unbelievably cruel," reports the Israeli news service Ynetnews.com.
Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz, a prominent figure in the Religious Zionism movement, expressed anger at what he considered an act of pure selfishness. "Whoever plans on having a baby like this by choice, just in order to fulfill her needs as a mother, has exceeded all evil and cruelty."
Rabinowitz emphasized the impact this kind of willed single motherhood has on a child's social standing, calling it "unimaginable" intentionally to "bring an orphaned child into the world." In criticism of an unequivocal nature the report called unprecedented, the rabbi concluded, "A woman [who does this] is not fit to be a mother for any human creature."
The rabbi was speaking at a summer conference of the Tzohar Rabbinical Association, an organization dedicated to advancing solidarity among Jews and promoting the rabbi's role in the Israeli community. Speakers at the conference were asked to discuss "family, generation gaps and the modern world."
Rabinowitz' fellow Rabbi Yaakov Ariel blamed sperm donation for encouraging women to marry too late. He also condemned its disruption of the traditional family structure: "There is no such thing as a single-parent family, just like there is no square that is a circle. A family consists of a father, mother, and children."
The right of a child to be born into a family with a father and a mother is also one of the crucial arguments in the Catholic community's battle against sperm donation and other artificial means of conception. When earlier this year Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the discernment of bioethical issues, he stated, "The two fundamental criteria for moral discernment in this field are: unconditional respect for the human being as a person, from conception to natural death; and respect for the origin of the transmission of human life through the acts of the spouses."
By arguing for the integrity of human procreation, critics of artificial insemination go beyond social considerations and address the physical, emotional and spiritual suffering of those involved as well as the intrinsic nature of human sexuality (see Zenit.org article "Fatherless Families: Spread of IVF Leave Children in the Dark" http://www.zenit.org/article-18527?l=english).
Related LifeSiteNews.com articles:
Sperm Donor Siblings, Mothers, Connect Online
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031009.html
Pope Condemns In Vitro Fertilization: "Barrier protecting human dignity has been broken"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08013110.html
Moving Letter from Child of Ex-Lesbian: "Why this sperm bank child opposes same sex marriage"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/oct/04102708.html
Swedish Sperm Donor Forced To Pay Child Support To Lesbian Recipient
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jun/02062106.html
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“Whoever plans on having a baby like this by choice, just in order to fulfill her needs as a mother, has exceeded all evil and cruelty.”Except for the mother who decides to not have her out of wedlock child.
I certainly agree with you; however, I think the Rabbi’s statement that it “has exceeded all evil and cruelty” does not preclude the greater evil and cruelty of abortion.
I have no doubt that the Rabbi had no intention of diminishing the evil of abortion. (I hope)
The Rabbi did not put it in perspective to abortion, so I thought I would.
With all due respect, Rabbi, there are a lot of women out there that have seen the field and would take their bets raising a child on their own rather than having some of the natural sperm donors known as “men” fail to raise these children properly.
Our society is on its heels, and if the child has one capable parent, then it has an edge over many people who have no capable parents, which is what an inept couple who decides to have children just for the sake of having children would do.
Of course, a child should have two capable parents, but we need to start turning our boys into gentlemen in our society, and not just sperm donors.
Is adopting a child out of wedlock bad too?
Do you mean adopting a child born out of wedlock or a single person adopting?
that a woman “who decides to have a baby out of wedlock by means of a sperm donation is...usually a dyke.
Single moms are not good for raising boys. This has been my experience. I don’t care how “liberating” it makes them feel.
I agree with the rabbi. It takes a family not a village to raise a family. These woman probably want to get knocked up so they can go on welfare and leech of the hard working taxpayers.
He’s a little harsh.
Imagine a true orphan with no parents. Wouldn’t a home with one loving mother be wonderful?
Imagine a family with a father who dies. Isn’t it still a family? Can’t a mother do great by her children even after adversity?
I agree. But at the same time, having one capable parent is better than none. But single parents are just a symptom of our liberalized society, not the cause. We need to cure the cause rather than attack many of these hard working single mothers, which is to cure liberalism.
The Rabbi is right.
The Rabbi is not talking about unintended pregnancy. He’s talking about single women getting pregnant by the means of sperm donations.
Does anyone ever read the article before posting? I’m beginning to wonder.
A singal person. Some would not want to see a child born out of wedlock, would those same people be opposed to a singal person adopting a child?
Unless there is a situation where there are no married couples to adopt, or in the case of orphans where the parent have asked a particular relative or friend or to adopt, I DO NOT believe that single people or homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt.
“The Rabbi is not talking about unintended pregnancy. He’s talking about single women getting pregnant by the means of sperm donations.”I am well aware of that.
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