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clevermanka) wrote2005-10-05 03:57 pm
clevermanka) wrote2005-10-05 03:57 pm
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breathofgold's latest post. For those deluded people who think we aren't headed towards the society of The Handmaid's Tale, think again, idiots. We're not just on the way, we're skipping down a wide, paved road.
UPDATE: I just got this from my mom. I quote from her email:
This is an overreation to what was a tragic situation in which a 50+ yr old single man (who had never been married much less a father) of questionable abilities to provide parenting was able to secure the right of fatherhood through a surrogate mother. He paid several thousands of dollars for this "right" and when the twin girls were born premature and the birth mother left without the infants, the hospital staff became alarmed when they realized this full-time employed man was going to take the infants home alone and without any social service intervention. They alerted the state who stepped in to oversee the situation. According to the original newspaper account, the man was not the biological father-he only paid out the money to an agency.
I in no way support such legislation as this, yet, it is unfathomable how people can buy infants when there are laws there prohibit the selling of children. I doubt such a law as this one will be passed but there is a need for some kind of guidelines. It would have been nice if the agency (baby broker) had stringent protocol for accepting clients. But it seems as if the agent that was quoted in the original ariticle only asks, "show me the money."
breathofgold's latest post. For those deluded people who think we aren't headed towards the society of The Handmaid's Tale, think again, idiots. We're not just on the way, we're skipping down a wide, paved road.UPDATE: I just got this from my mom. I quote from her email:
This is an overreation to what was a tragic situation in which a 50+ yr old single man (who had never been married much less a father) of questionable abilities to provide parenting was able to secure the right of fatherhood through a surrogate mother. He paid several thousands of dollars for this "right" and when the twin girls were born premature and the birth mother left without the infants, the hospital staff became alarmed when they realized this full-time employed man was going to take the infants home alone and without any social service intervention. They alerted the state who stepped in to oversee the situation. According to the original newspaper account, the man was not the biological father-he only paid out the money to an agency.
I in no way support such legislation as this, yet, it is unfathomable how people can buy infants when there are laws there prohibit the selling of children. I doubt such a law as this one will be passed but there is a need for some kind of guidelines. It would have been nice if the agency (baby broker) had stringent protocol for accepting clients. But it seems as if the agent that was quoted in the original ariticle only asks, "show me the money."