Posted on 07/09/2022 3:05:45 AM PDT by Morgana
(LifeSiteNews) — Last month, a photo of a “maternity” shoot went viral. It depicted two gay men holding hands, beaming at into each other’s eyes, with a pregnant young woman in a red dress in the background. The caption: “We did a ‘maternity’ shoot and it came out great!” The woman was a surrogate; she’d been paid to carry a child created with sperm and an egg donor for the two men. The online reaction — which soon escalated into the millions — was immediate. “This is some Handmaid stuff right here,” wrote conservative commentator Bethany Mandel.
She’s not wrong. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale — and the gory, brutal TV show — depicts a cultural hellscape in which young women are subjugated and forced to carry children for elites who are unable to conceive naturally. The parallels are obvious, and surrogacy horror stories are increasingly frequent. Surrogates, of course, aren’t forced — although many of them feel the pressure of being paid to use their bodies in the service of others (wealthy couples who prefer not to gestate their own children; gay couples who cannot have natural children).
Of course, it isn’t just the women who are commodified as gestation vessels for the children of the rich. It is also the children who are reduced to objects that can be created and purchased on demand. Some of these parental purchasers firmly believe the old maxim “I brought you into this world and I can take you out.” There are many stories of dissatisfied customers demanding that their horrified surrogates abort one or more of the pre-born children they ordered due to a perceived imperfection in the order. Many children begin their lives in a petri dish and end it through the bloody suction aspirator of the abortionist. Return to Sender.
In fact, a gay couple is suing an IVF clinic in Pasadena for not giving them precisely what they wanted. From NBC:
A male same-sex couple is suing a Pasadena in-vitro fertilization clinic, alleging their hopes of having a son were stymied when a female embryo was wrongly implanted in their gestational carrier and a daughter was born to them instead in 2021. Albert Saniger and Anthony Saniger brought the lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court against HRC Fertility and fertility specialist Dr. Bradford A. Kolb, alleging breach of contract, medical malpractice, negligence, fraudulent concealment and violation of the Unfair Competition Law and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Read that again for a moment — these gay men are angry and suing because their “gestational carrier” gave birth to a baby girl, whom they did not want. Before they “married” in 2013, the men had decided to purchase two sons and apparently even chose their names and (weirdly) set up Gmail accounts for them. Their lawsuit insists that they had specified that “only male embryos [be] transferred to the gestational carrier and … get to select the exact embryos, which had an identified gender, to be used in each transfer.” The IVF clinic in question “specifically targets” gay couples and is “dedicated to helping the gay and lesbian community achieve their dreams of parenthood.”
But after paying $300,000, the two men ended up with a daughter, who was born last year. Presumably, she will one day find these stories on the Internet, and her intentionally motherless childhood will be made worse by the realization that she was a mistaken order. If her “dads” had had their way, she would have been left in a freezer, donated for research, or simply abandoned forever. The two men are still hoping to acquire two sons but are launching the suit to defray the costs of raising their unwanted daughter. Such is the narcissism of these two men that they actually believe that they are the wronged one in this tragic situation.
They are not. They are perpetrators; their motherless children, and the little girl most of all, are the victims. Surrogacy is a sick practice, and it should be banned.
I guess they’ll have to “transition” the little girl so they can have the boy toy they wanted.
How do they know what the baby identifies as? It might be a boy.
Gestational carrier? Someone had to go out of their way, to find that description. And another question, are they biologists?
I’d hate to have them as parents as it’s obvious they wanted a play toy and not a child.
That kid is going to have a rough time figuring out it’s heritage.
Confusion, poor kid will definitely suffer same
Rather spending the money on a child the two wackos should have put a down payment toward psychotherapy sessions.
It’s a Brave New World.
gays should not be able to adopt any kids.
“But after paying $300,000, the two men ended up with a daughter, who was born last year…”
Sexual deviants don’t pay 300 grand for something that doesn’t involve sex.
Very few gay couples stay together for long.
What is going to happen to this poor girl and her possible brothers when these would be parents eventually split?
Oh, and these perverts should also sue for a volume discount so they won’t go broke trying to get exactly what they want.
Suit against fertility clinic shows the lunacy of surrogacy after gays get a girl instead of the boy they ordered ...
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Next time, they’ll order their embryo from Amazon prime so they get a 30 day return. (These people see children as “fashion accessories”.)
These two have already screwed up the life of that poor child already. I’m surprised that they didn’t demand that the surrogate have an abortion.
I still say, this is not natural.
Which drive leftards crazy.
Or, crazier.
Since liberals think that you can change sexes, why not do a addadictome (as Rush used to say) to her. She can think she’s a boy!
Children have become accessories to some people.
One can only imagine the destruction that God in Heaven will exact some day against all those who assumed they could play like this with the crowning jewel of His creation.... Lord come quickly!!
Revelation 22 20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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