Blog Update

November 07, 2009

Blog Update

For the time being, this blog is on hiatus, as I am not able to devote much time to it at present. I am still very interested in the issues, and expect to return to this blog in the future. Thank you for visiting!

4 comments:

Tom said...: Sorry to hear that, and looking forward to you returning.; November 08, 2009
Val said...: I am also sorry, but eagerly await your return!; November 10, 2009
Kitty said...: Oh darn! So many people are going to miss out on your insane rants!!!; November 20, 2009
Anonymous said...: What a heartless cruel blog topic. I'm going to guess you have not been through the pain of not being able to conceive with your partner? Well, I have and it is painful and heart-wrenching. And I'll cut to the chase, because I suspect someone who takes the time and effort to create a blog on this topic is not one for sentimentality or feeling (and probably a republican too. funny how you can ALWAYS spot them). My wife and I tried to conceive for years. After that, we tried IVF. Four times and each time a failure. Finally, we tried a donor cycle. It was successful. Our twins are now 3 years old, and wonderfully confident happy kids. There are lots of kids who are adopted who don't know their biological parents. Is that a loss? Of course it is. My wife and I knew that going in and know that the kids will need to know when they are emotionally ready to handle it (a judgment call, who can say if we'll be right...). But overriding that, we knew with certainty that we would love our children with all of our heart and that being a biological parent is only a small part of parenthood. Being there emotionally for your children, nurturing their individuality, loving them and helping them grow. That is more important than the fact that they sprang from your seed.

You are heartless. I hope you find one someday. And for the world's sake, let's hope YOU don't have kids.; January 01, 2011

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Stop the Baby Trade

Yes, it is a baby trade, like the slave trade of old. Babies have become consumer products, accessories to our lifestyles. They are like pets, those cute and cuddly babies. And like pets, they can be made to your liking. Just buy the sperm at your nearest sperm bank, purchase an egg from your local egg dealer, and rent a surrogate womb. And in 9 months, bring home a baby without a pregnancy, without even a dent in your schedule!

There is supply and there is demand. Babies are disposable: their value and worth depend on being "wanted". As embryos they can receive a life or death sentence based on a screening of their genetic traits. They can be frozen indefinitely, donated for research or simply killed. In the womb they can be "selectively reduced". They belong to whomever they were "intended" for.

Apparently, adults have a "right" to a baby. And before they are born, babies have no rights at all. They can be bought and sold, or traded from person to person.

Even after they are born, some of their natural rights are not recognized or respected. They had better not complain about not having their "natural" or biological parents. If they mind, they are ungrateful. After all, we cuddle them and spoil them and shower them with love - just like our pets.

Well, it's time to stop the baby trade. Infertility is tragic. So is being panhandled by your own genetic parents and being raised by biological strangers. So is being created in a laboratory only to be frozen as "surplus" or screened out and left to die because you are "unwanted".

Children have not consented to these things. Their own parents, their supposed protectors, have allowed these things to happen to them. Adults have selfishly allowed their reproductive urges to trample on the fundamental rights and needs of their own children. But now, as many of these children come of age and we hear their cries of pain, it is time to admit that what reproductive technologies have given to parents, they have also taken away from children.

Sometimes doing the right thing requires a lot of sacrifice. This is one of those times. We need to set aside our adult desires in order to protect children's rights. Let's see babies as human beings who are our equals. Let’s admit that we have no right to harm others to get what we want. Let’s stand up for those who don’t have a signature line on the consent forms, yet who will be forever affected by the decisions taken.

We will find that by protecting the weakest, we are also protecting ourselves. The rights of children are tied to the rights of adults. Children have a right to their own parents; and those parents also have a natural right to know and to educate their own biological children. These natural rights cannot be eliminated, only violated.

Let’s stand up for the natural human rights of children: their right to life from the moment of conception, their right to be carried in the womb of their own biological mother, and their right to know and be raised by their own biological parents.