Posted on 08/04/2014 2:12:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Jesus said, “What God has joined together, let no one divide.” But this is exactly what we have done in our divisive and reductionist time. We have done so not only with marriage but with sexuality and the procreation and raising of children. God has joined together, sex, marriage and procreation. But we have separated and isolated them:
We have separated and isolated things which God has joined together. Sex marriage and procreation are meant to be together and each exists for and on behalf of the others. We have sown the wind and are reaping the whirlwind. For:
In separating what God has joined we have become lost in a strange world where life is both hated (via contraception and abortion) and were life has been turned into a commercial product up for sale (via in vitro etc). Indeed we have come upon the era of designer babies, we are already into the first stages of cloning, gene splicing and heather having three or more parents. We are heading for the hatchery and not far from the Novels 1984, and Brave New World.
And very few today bat an eye at the prospect. Very few have considered the darkness of turning human life into a designer product up for sale: an egg from here, a sperm from there, rent a womb over there; couple strands of DNA here and some more from there: Heather has six “parents” and a 7th “mother” in the womb that was rented to gestate her.
Even fewer seem to care that it is children who going to be born into this utter chaos and who are having a social experiment foisted upon them, with they themselves as the guinea pigs. No, who cares about them, haven’t you gotten the memo that this world is all about adults and what they want? Marriage isn’t about what is best for children, its about adults and their feelings and what they want. Sex isn’t about children either, its about what adults want to do. And even having children isn’t about children. Its about what adults want, in the way they want it. Yes even having children is about adults. And heaven protect the child who has a disability, 80 – 90 % of simply aborted. Heaven protect the excess “embryos” (i.e. children), from in vitro fertilization, who don’t get selected for implantation by the doctor, into the freezer or worse with them. And if you don’t think sex selection hasn’t been going on for a long time in the designer baby world, wake up. Heaven protect the infant who is the wrong sex.
Dark (not brave) new world. And here follows an excerpt from an article which describes another dark side of the designer baby world:
A Thai woman who carried a baby with Down’s syndrome as a surrogate mother has vowed to take care of the boy after his natural parents gave him up….
The Australian couple left Gammy, now six months old, with Pattaramon Chanbua but took his healthy twin sister. Gammy has a congenital heart condition, a lung infection and Down’s and is in a Thai hospital for urgent treatment. God is watching. Can you imagine appearing before the Judgment Seat of Christ with this on your record? Lets hope they repent.
A campaign to help the baby begun online after Thai newspaper Thairath published Gammy’s story last week. It has raised more than $150,000 ($140,000; £83,000) from 3,400 donors in 11 days. Ok, nice but how about a campaign to end the practice of surrogacy? Can’t folk sees that hideous outcomes like this are going to be frequent when people turn human life into a product to be bought and sold, and seek designer babies, and to throw away imperfect products and “misprints?”
In Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott expressed his sadness: “I guess it illustrates some of the pitfalls involved in this particular business.” Really, is the best outrage Mr. Balir can muster? “Pitfall” ?? “Business” ??
Ms Pattaramon was paid $15,000 (£9,000) to be a surrogate for the couple, whose identities remain unknown. She was told of the child’s condition four months after becoming pregnant, prompting the couple to ask her to have an abortion. She refused, saying it was against her Buddhist beliefs. Great couple huh? Also, too bad the woman’s Buddhist beliefs didn’t prevent her from renting her womb for 15K. (Full article is here: Surrogate Mother Cares for Disabled Child Rejected by Biological “Parents”)
So, the darkness continues to grow, and as it gets darker it gets colder; in this case a lot colder. In a secular age, some like to boast there is no God. But the problem is if there is no God and everyone is god. Stories like this reminded us that if we want to play God, are going to do a lousy job of it.
The atheists and secularist may think of our God, the God of the Bible in poor terms, but at least in God’s world there is room for imperfection and mercy. Story’s like the one above remind us that in this dark (not brave) new world where man becomes god, there is increasingly no room for imperfect children, and no mercy for them either. Designer life, up for sale, is not just a bad idea, it is a dangerous and heartless one, and it increasingly amounts to a genocide against the disabled who bring us gifts, whether we want to admit it or not.
Where have these heartless, merciless notions come from? Pride? Sure, because we want to be gods who design and toy with life and reserve the right to kill what we have made. Lust? Yes indeed, because we want “sex” without cost or responsibility. Anger? Yes again, for we increasingly kill what does not please us. Sloth? That too, for most are too busy to care about the is “arcane” stuff and consign the matter to the “none of my business as long as no one gets hurt” file. Well a lot have been hurt and killed and lot more are going on death row might soon.
We have sown the wind, and now we are reaping the whirlwind. It began with a great divorce wherein we separated what God has joined. Sex, marriage and having children are meant to be together. We have separated and isolated them and thus we sowed the wind. And then came the whirlwind of abortion, promiscuity, AIDS, STDs, teenage pregnancy, divorce, cohabitation, single motherhood, homosexual confusion, and the entire meltdown of the meaning of marriage and human sexuality. In the end it is the children who suffer, it is always the children.
Call the Church out of touch, call us old fashioned, but don’t call us inconsistent. We are just as opposed to abortion and contraception (which wants sex without procreation), as we are opposed to IVF and surrogate motherhood, cloning (and every other dark art on the way) that wants children without sex or marriage. I guess we’re just strange that way. We really think that sex and marriage and having children ought to go together. It’s what God set forth, its what’s best for children, and we ought not separate what God has joined.
Don’t bother arguing with the righteous fruitcakes on this site. Waste of time. I too have friends and family who’ve had success with IVF. But yes, I’m sure god is setting aside a place for them in the lake of fire...(s)
My nephew wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for rape.
Jus’ sayin’ ...
Have MERCY on us God!
And nobody is consigning anybody to the lake of fire . . . that's God's job. I believe that in the current climate, where doctors and the press and even most ministers seem to think that it's perfectly o.k. to use IVF and selectively abort the multiple implanted babies, there may not be deliberate sin involved in many instances (just as many young women are reassured, pressured or threatened into abortions by their boyfriends and even their parents).
But nevertheless, treating children as commodities up for sale (and of course available to destroy - like the little ones that are "sacrificed" in the process) is evil, and it leads to evil. Aside from the horror of this Australian couple tossing aside a baby because they didn't get "the benefit of their bargain", you also have the very real problem of children not knowing who their parents are - aside from the medical issues, we are already seeing incest problems with sperm banks that relied on a few prolific donors - half-siblings inadvertently marrying and/or having babies.
It's not something that should be encouraged, even if God blesses the innocent little children who are its results.
I unreservedly wish the best for you and your children.God bless you, and may they thrive in your love and care.
It's not a question of whether the children are good. The children are good, period --- whether or not they are smart, cute, funny, or future conservatives. A child is good per se, no matter what the circumstances of his begetting and birthing.
But the separate and distinct thing we want to consider, is whether the way in which he was conceived is good.
Because --- as you and I know, as everybody knows --- there are regrettable ways that a child can be conceived, and we can find some of those ways morally objectionable, even if we would find the child a sheer delight.
Children are conceived by silly drunk foolin' around by college students, by prostitution, by reproductive concubinage (surrogacy), by rape, by artificial insemination of single women and lesbians, in acts of anger, in acts of greed, in acts of sexual jihad, in acts of marital deception, in laboratory procedures linked to commercial transactions.
About that last one: is it not true that the IVF lab/clinic would consider it their "ethical" responsibility to discard any human zygote they found to be affectd by some sort of defect, before implantation?
And is it not true that IVF produces offspring which are regarded by law as property rather than as persons? (If you have any doubts, take a good hard look at "Davis vs Davis" Maryville TN embryo case LINK)
Is it not true that, as a result, human embryos can legally be bought, sold, bequeathed to somebody as part of an estate, manipulated with intentionally lethal results, given away, regarded as a tortuous offense in a wrongful birth case, stored like a dubious package at the back of the freezer, or discarded?
We can affirm the God-Blessed existence of the child, without approving of the way he was conceived. "Reproductive circumstances" and "valuing the child" are two separate issues.
Everyone can sincerely wish IVF parents and their children well, without thinking the laboratory concoction and/or commercial reproduction of children is a good thing .
Well stated Mrs. Don-o. I have to wonder, where is the option of adoption? So many children in need, so many left to fall into the hands of so few to care for them.
There's a less-noble template for adoption out there, though: an adoption centered on the wants of the adult(s), (single or couple), who want a particular type of child, typically a perfect newborn blue-eyed blonde from a healthy mother.
That's the "gold standard" of the adoption market: there's no shortage of couples who want to adopt a perfect newborn blue-eyed blonde from a healthy mother.
There's a huge shortage of adults who want to adopt kids who have disabilities or defects, who are older than infant, who are the "wrong" color or mix of colors, who had a sick (or drunk or addicted) mother, and/or who come with siblings that the agencies don't want to break up.
This doesn't apply to everyone, of course, but one reason IVF may be strongly preferred by some people, rather than adoption, is because IVF is less of a toss of the dice in terms of genetic uniformity, product quality-control and parental satisfaction.
You know your perfect, blue-eyed blonde from a healthy mother? She’s still an absolute pill once she turns 12, if not sooner, and the data is not yet in on whether she ever recovers.
Excuse you? Was anyone condemning someone to hell above? If not, you owe many people above an apology.
The premise, “A child’s existence is a good. Therefore, all means of conceiving a child are good,” fails as soon as you say, “Rape.”
A person who wants to argue that IVF, specifically, is a good means of conception needs to address the arguments that it is an immoral means of conception. I don’t see anyone doing so; however, the work day makes it hard to FReep if your work isn’t watching little boys play Lego.
Of course, one can simply assert that IVF is good and then call people names if they disagree, no matter how polite and reasonable their disagreement is.
(Wincing.)
The two who were not blonde have recovered from absolute-pillness, but this is not an exact match ...
Pray. That, or alcohol.
Both.
Except that they will never know their real biological father.
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Incorrect assumption. We used my husband’s sperm and my eggs.
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