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Lesbian Couple Sues Sperm Bank after Baby is Born "Wrong" Color
Christian Headlines ^ | October 13, 2014 | John Stonestreet

Posted on 10/21/2014 10:17:23 AM PDT by xzins

This latest story from our brave new world may blow your mind, so I’ll read straight from the Chicago Tribune: “A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.”

Now, I don’t doubt the lesbian couple’s love for the child. But I find it troubling which challenges the couple was willing and isn’t willing to tolerate. They’re suing because of the difficulties of raising a black child in a white community, but they were perfectly willing to risk raising the child without a father—a situation that the best evidence suggests poses far greater consequences for the child. Make no mistake: this is one of those stories that’s a mirror of our culture’s view of sex and children.

There is no doubt that having a mom and a dad in the home is the best situation for healthy development of children. The evidence is overwhelming. Children with fathers in the home tend to do better in school and in life in general. Children from fatherless homes are more likely to succumb to drugs and alcohol, suicide, and a host of social maladies. It’s not always the case, of course, but when it’s not it should be the exception… not the new rule.

A while back, I interviewed science writer Paul Raeburn on “BreakPoint This Week” about his book “Do Fathers Matter.” Now Raeburn isn’t a Christian, and he wouldn’t take a position on the issue of same-sex marriage. But there was no doubt in his mind that the overwhelming conclusion of the research is that fathers matter. A lot. Relationally, emotionally, spiritually—even biologically!

Well, back to Ohio. The plaintiff is asking the judge for $50,000 because she didn’t get the baby she ordered through the sperm donation process. Which brings up the other troubling reality in this story.

When we were discussing this news item, Shane Morris, one of our Colson Center writers, wryly observed, “Grandma always says, ‘If it’s the wrong color, you can return it,’ when she gives us sweaters. Hearing that said of a baby girl makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.”

The wife of another of our writers said, “The message to the child is something like, ‘We love you, honey, but we are suing the people who made your existence possible.’” And then she added, “We need to pray for that child.”

Indeed. Whatever the effect of our current social experimentation of intentionally producing children to not have either a father or a mother, I cannot imagine that this child will easily be able to come to terms with such mixed messages inherent in the lawsuit.

On multiple levels, this story illustrates our new and enormous cultural blind spot. Sexual autonomy is now considered the highest good in our society. And it comes as a package deal with so-called “reproductive freedom.” To quote my friend and co-author Sean McDowell, we want sex without babies, and babies without sex.

And the great tragic irony is that our so-called freedom means that our children are not free, nor are they seen as the unique creations of God that they are. They’re the products of our illusions of autonomy enabled by technological advances.

We now wish to create children on our terms… through science. We choose the traits that make them desirable—eye color, hair color, skin color; athletic prowess; intelligence; and so on—not simply because they are. And if at any time they displease us—either through skin color, disability, or the mere timing of their birth, we feel fully justified in getting someone else to eliminate them, or at least pay us for our inconvenience.

Jesus said, “Let the children come to me.” And so ought we. As His Church, those lovingly adopted into His family, may we show our dehumanizing culture, and its children, a better way. Red and yellow, black and white, they are all precious in His sight.

BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending Christian worldview in all areas of life. Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Feel free to contact us at BreakPoint.org where you can read and search answers to common questions.

John Stonestreet, the host of The Point, a daily national radio program, provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a biblical worldview. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview.

Publication date: October 13, 2014


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualadoption; homosexualagenda; lesbian; napl; oops; spermbank; unnatural
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21 posted on 10/21/2014 10:31:43 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Beautiful child, evil couple.


22 posted on 10/21/2014 10:32:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: xzins

Don’t bother wondering if they are thinking of moving to a black community where “people look like her.”


23 posted on 10/21/2014 10:35:45 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: areukiddingme1

I think this story is more complex than we see in these stories. First, they apparently did not even know the father was black until very recently when the other lesbian went back to the same center to get impregnated with a baby of her own. They wanted the same father. That’s when they found out the daddy was black. So maybe the baby looks mostly white or something and they did not notice until they found out what happened. As far as I can tell, the sperm bank DID indeed screw up and give them the wrong sperm, so that does need to be settled. What I don’t get is how the racial aspect has totally escaped the media. I guess since it is lesbians, they get a pass. I could only imagine if a pro-life white couple complained about a black baby and then tried to blame the neighborhood. It would be 24/7 coverage with Geraldo capmed out front.


24 posted on 10/21/2014 10:38:32 AM PDT by BRK
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To: Slings and Arrows

...lesbians are racists !


25 posted on 10/21/2014 10:40:22 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: xzins
The wife of another of our writers said, “The message to the child is something like, ‘We love you, honey, but we are suing the people who made your existence possible.’”

That is genius. It's so succinct that there's no wiggling away from it.

26 posted on 10/21/2014 10:41:16 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Squantos

They certainly aren’t very tolerant.


27 posted on 10/21/2014 10:41:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: BRK

The media will never touch this...not the left wing media anyway.

Because it absolutely disproves the notion that race is comparable to same-sex attraction.

These women see before the very eyes the difference between an inherent attribute and a behavioral choice.


28 posted on 10/21/2014 10:42:24 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: jiggyboy

Are humans just getting crazier and crazier? She is beautiful in any color.

Pray for them!


29 posted on 10/21/2014 10:43:52 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: dfwgator

“evil couple”

The look like they might be sisters! lol


30 posted on 10/21/2014 10:44:42 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: xzins
FTA: "They’re suing because of the difficulties of raising a black child in a white community" HUH? Apparently one of these "parental units" came from an old fashioned "straight-laced uptight White" WASPish ultra-conservative type of community Surely these folks already know she's a lesbian and an unwed mother, how much worse could it be for them now that the townsfolk know her baby is bi-racial? Seems to me the "mother" is looking to establish a trust fund for the child, loking for a nifty settlement, or, as is the case with so many homosexuals, she just wants to ***ATTRACT ATTENTION TO HERSELF!!!**** If she really cared for child's well-being she wouldn't have fied such a lawsuit in the first place, the potential emotional and psych damage to the child would be much worse than any strange looks the kid would get from any White person. If they really felt the need to sue, they should have done it discreetly and respond to any questions from the media with the words "TALK TO MY ATTORNEY".
31 posted on 10/21/2014 10:45:15 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: xzins

If the female who actually gave birth to the baby had really wanted a white child she should have had sex with a white male..


32 posted on 10/21/2014 10:46:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

There would have been something natural about that, wouldn’t there?


33 posted on 10/21/2014 10:51:56 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Well “mom”, if you did this the right way, you’d have known whose child you were having from the get-go.


34 posted on 10/21/2014 11:06:49 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: xzins

intolerant (bigotted and racist) lesbians!


35 posted on 10/21/2014 11:19:57 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: xzins

This reminds me of the story about a certain 80s era St Louis Cardinals player who was with his wife as she delivered a baby that belonged to another St. Louis Cardinals player.


36 posted on 10/21/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Uversabound

Amen to that, “pray for them!” That’s the right answer versus all the snarky comments usually dished out for those on the other side. I think Lesbians and Gays are the saddest people in the world with never a chance to be happy. Maybe I am wrong, but seems to me that society can never give them what they want through the courts, laws etc. ..They are winning all the battles, one by one, but at the other end of the struggle, it will be a holllow place, because what they really want, nobody can give them.
You know thier plight is unsolvable, otherwise Democrats would never be interested in the issue. They only take on issues can change over time and be ever defined upwards like Education, Environment or health care, or else can never be solved, like poverty. LGBT contentment is a never ending unattainable state that fits in perfectly with their portfolio of grievance politics.


37 posted on 10/21/2014 11:25:04 AM PDT by BRK
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To: xzins

someone might tell the “lady” that there is a (natural) way to assure the “proper” race of a baby, called “marriage”...


38 posted on 10/21/2014 11:30:24 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..) u)
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To: Tennessee Nana

They should have noticed the turkey baster had a black rubber bulb on the end and not w white one...


39 posted on 10/21/2014 11:35:54 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Squantos

Who isn’t?


40 posted on 10/21/2014 11:42:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Clappin' the Blues (remix)" [slightly NSFW] - http://youtu.be/p9d2iHSfRmE)
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