Josephine Franks, Trent Franks’ Wife: 5 Fast Facts
The above raises even more questions....
That is unusual to the point of weird.
And, he and the wife are getting along in years for this.
And, $5 million is an AWFUL lot of money for this service. I wonder if he threw that sum around after he intimated he’d try to impregnate the normal way. But, that’s at odds with his “no embryos are to be wasted in the making of this baby” rhetoric.
Do they have anything to do with your total lack of reading comprehension?
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So in vitro was okay before, but not now. Granted sex is better route. And if Catholic, in vitro is out anyway.
It deprives kids of having a bond with the woman who gave them birth, and deprived the so-called "gestational carrier" (demeaning term: what is she, a perambulator?) her bonds with the kids she gave birth to. And, crucially, this is done deliberately, by plan.
Some kids have their natural bonds broken by chance. None should have them broken by choice.
OK, I’m going to call “Shenanigans” on Heavy.com’s and Huffington Post’s accusations of hypocrisy concerning Trent Franks’s anti-abortion stance.
In his resignation statement, Franks said, regarding the surrogacy that resulted in the birth of his twin children, “The process by which they were conceived was a pro-life approach that did not discard or throw away any embryos.” In 2013, HuffPo quoted Franks as having said “a trusted friend told us of a medical organization that would allow us to pursue a surrogacy effort where a limited number of eggs would be fertilized and no embryos would be discarded.”
Both of those statements are COMPLETELY CONSISTENT with a use of IVF in which the only eggs that were fertilized were implanted. HuffPo is making a semantics point, on which Heavy piggybacks, that an “embryo” technically is a pre-born human (not that the pro-abortionists at HuffPo and Heavy ever would admit to the human-being characterization) at a later stage of development than the result of recently fertilized egg (technically known as a “blastocyst”) and thus claiming that Franks must have discarded several blastocysts because he used the word “embryo” when he affirmed that he didn’t discard any pre-born human beings. It is wishful thinking on the part of the abortionists at HuffPo and Heavy that Congressman Franks favors the destruction of pre-born human life in the pursuit of children through IVF.
If Franks really offered to pay his staffers to have sex with him, whether in pursuit of children or otherwise, then certainly he should resign. But if he merely offered to pay them for surrogacy through IVF, not only is it not sexual harassment, it’s not even a case of employment discrimination *unless* it was coupled with retaliation on the part of Franks for the wonen’s refusal. We need to know more facts before we condemn Trent Franks of anything.
And one thing that is clear is that we should never, ever trust liberal online rags like HuffPo and Heavy to interpret issues involving the protection of pre-born human life.