That could depend on the reason for the infertility. If there was a problem with the wife not producing ovum or any viable ovum, then they could use a donor egg fertilized with his sperm and that is according to multiple reports, just how he and his wife became parents to their twins – going to an infertility clinic and with their help procuring a donor egg which was then fertilized and then implanted into a surrogate using in-vitro.
Take a look at this picture and tell me those children are biologically his wife’s who is Filipina.
They used a well know infertility clinic to become parents to their twins so I would ask why he and his wife didn’t go back to that clinic instead of him asking his female staffers to do the job?
I also understand that his wife Josephine Franks is 57 years old so is likely post-menopausal.
There is just no way to justify a boss asking his female subordinates, not once but multiple times to carry his child, even if by artificial insemination. And the offer of $5 million dollars if true, is even creepier.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) offered a female staff member $5 million if she would bear his child, said a woman who helped bring the matter to the attention of House leaders, prompting Franks’s immediate resignation Friday.
Andrea Lafferty said she encouraged the Franks aide, who had left his office after the alleged conduct, to bring the story to the attention of the House Republican leadership and was present when the aide was interviewed last week by House lawyers.
“He offered her $5 million if she would conceive a child, that’s what she told,” Lafferty, who is president of the Traditional Values Coalition, an advocacy group that promotes social conservative views shared by Franks.
The woman told investigators that Franks had approached her with papers that he described as a written contract for her to review, Lafferty said: “She didn’t want any part of it, and she rejected that.”
After rejecting Franks’s advances, the woman said, she felt sidelined within his office and eventually left, according to Lafferty.
Lafferty declined to put a Washington Post reporter in touch with the former aide Friday. The woman spoke earlier in the day to the Associated Press, telling the news agency that she “was asked a few times to look over a ‘contract’ to carry his child, and if I would conceive his child, I would be given $5 million.”
I can’t imagine a scenario ever, where this would be an appropriate request in the work place.
Boss to female subordinate: Would you be interested in being a surrogate and helping me and my post-menopausal wife carrying my baby?
Subordinate female employee: No. No thanks, not interested.
Boss to female subordinate: well here look over this contract and tell me if you are still not interested in carrying my baby.
Subordinate female employee: No. No thanks, once again, I am not interested.
Boss to female subordinate: Ok but look at this contract again…
Subordinate female employee: I told you before that I am not interested in doing this and this continued conversation makes me uncomfortable.
Boss to female subordinate: Not even for $5 million dollars?
Subordinate female employee: No. Still not interested.
Boss to female subordinate: You know (and completely unrelated to you not wanting to carry my baby) I really just don’t need you to attend any more meetings, your role and job in this office is going to be downsized and relegated to nothing more than running for coffee and making photo copies.
Subordinate female employee: Fine but I’m out of here.
Furthermore, try to imagine a scenario where if one of his female staffers had agreed to this, coming to work every day with his baby growing inside her and thinking that they could maintain any type of strictly professional relationship.
No, it was in no way appropriate and unfortunately, right or wrong has given liberals ammo to compare this to a real life “Handmaid’s Tail”.