And this is exactly why I don't identify with any mainstream religion. How could you say such a morally bankrupt and cold-hearted thing? If you found out your husband was sterile, would you leave him because he couldn't make babies with you? What would you do if you found out that carrying a child to term would kill you? Leave all your friends and family and become a recluse in the mountains?
We look like DU right now on this thread. How any of you could say such things about people is beyond me.
On the contrary. I suspect that they would consider the use of surrogates to be “progressive”.
This is the sort of "argument" usually advanced for abortion. "But what if she were raped? What if she were destitute and could not feed the ones she has? You anti-choicers are just cold-hearted!"
The moral thing to do is the right thing to do, not the thing that is easiest or feels best. None of us has a right to a child, much less to as many children as we can pay somebody else to incubate for us. Children, however, do have rights--among them the right to be born to their two married biological parents. Failing to honor that right has been a recipe for disaster.
“We look like DU right now on this thread. How any of you could say such things about people is beyond me. “
Exactly. Discouraged to learn that there are so many so-called conservatives that are pious, uncaring and judgmental.
Personally, my husband and I would accept God’s will and remain childless or adopt.
“If you found out your husband was sterile, would you leave him because he couldn’t make babies with you? What would you do if you found out that carrying a child to term would kill you? Leave all your friends and family and become a recluse in the mountains?”
Ummm no. Maybe we would just be happy with the children God gave us and live out the rest of our lives happily?