Fatherhood and In-Vitro Fertilization:How Abortion Has Destroyed Families (Fatherhood is Irrelevant)

Life News ^ | 06.17.08 | Colin Mason and Steven Mosher

[Coleus]

Last Wednesday, the British House of Commons decided that a father is completely and totally irrelevant to a child's development. The legislation, which dealt with in vitro fertilization, or IVF, would have included a clause requiring a fertility doctor to "consider a child's need for a male role model before giving women IVF treatment," according to news site This Is London. Even though IVF already marginalizes fathers by effectively removing them from the procreative process, feminists would not allow even this bland and toothless reference to men to stand. The clause was voted down.

This Is London went on to add that "the Government argued that the law as it stood discriminated against single women and lesbian couples - although both these groups can already get fertility treatment on the Health Service. From now on, doctors will have to consider only a child's need for 'supportive parenting'." Whatever that means. Those of us who still celebrate Father's Day should reflect on this not simply as an isolated event, but as the latest in a long string of attacks that fatherhood has suffered at the hands of feminists and abortionists.

Modern feminists maintain that their highest goal is equality and liberty, but their agenda runs far deeper than that. It is summed up in the phrase, "bodily autonomy," an idea first developed and promoted by Margaret Sanger in her 1914 book, The Woman Rebel.

This old-new catchphrase is still used by her ideological descendants. For the sex-obsessed feminism that Sanger helped create, simple equality is not enough. Women need to free themselves not only from men, but also from families, from religion, and especially from pregnancy. They must be completely free to do what they wish, when they wish, with no responsibility to anyone else but themselves.

This goal of radical autonomy essentially views men as members of an alien species. It completely ignores the complementary nature of men and women as two halves of the same race, whose bonding in lifelong, monogamous relationships is necessary for the survival, happiness and salvation of both. For this brand of feminism, the feminine defines what it means to be human. It is all there is, and it is infinitely plastic. Folk singer Ani DiFranco gleefully calls it "self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do."

In their quest to free themselves from the supposed bonds of male oppression, radical feminists have gone far beyond simply marginalizing and dehumanizing men. They have striven to form a world where every function that has historically been performed by men can be performed by women, with the aid of technology. Their goal is to renders fathers and husbands not only unnecessary, but completely superfluous. Even the terms "father" and "husband" are to be rendered out-of-style and obsolete, odd relics from a bygone age, snatches of a song no longer sung.

This predictably wreaks havoc on the family, whose structure follows an age-old reproductive logic: a man, a woman, and the children that they procreate or adopt. If women are autonomous beings, answerable only to themselves, then the family loses its fundamental meaning. It must be redefined in nonbiological ways, and become infinitely inclusive.

Gender itself becomes fluid, as in California, where what bathroom one chooses to enter depends not upon one's genitalia, but upon what gender one has adopted that day. And, of course, ways must be found not only to exist, but to procreate, without men. The Amazons of legend kept men in cages; the radical feminists, assisted by modern technology, keep only the biologically necessary germ cells in test tubes, with abortion as a backup in case the experiment goes awry. If men attempted to build a society on such principles, it would rightly be considered insanity. But when radical feminists do it, it is merely "feminism."

The pro-life movement faces multiple tasks. It is not enough simply to overturn back laws and change attitudes about abortion, contraception and sex. The very fabric of the relationship between men and women must be stitched back together. What radical feminists do not realize is that by exploding the family, they are destroying the institution that has protected most women over most of human history from abuse. If men are not to be allowed to grow into their vital role as husbands and fathers, then they will simply use, violate and abandon women. The radical feminists are thus exacerbating the very attitudes and trends among men that they purport to be trying to escape.

One of the keys to ending abortion is to reinvigorate fatherhood. Intact, functioning and loving families protect their youngest and most vulnerable members. Isolated individuals -- of either sex -- do not.

Steven Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute, Colin Mason is Director of Media Production at PRI

[keving]

As a father, my status as a normal person is attacked, vilified, and made the subject or jokes and ridicule. This attitude has crept into the legal system and often punishes the father during divorce, etc. A fathers continue being fathers in th face of basically criticism for existing. All of this occurs without an outcry from civil libertarians and sociologists, despite the fact that children and families without fathers are not very successful by any measure.

I am not a historian,but the provision of funds for female fornicators and their dependent children has fostered this situation. I think this ridicule was targeted for fornicating fathers, and now we are all being painted with the same brush. If the funds for the fornicators was eliminated, maybe this situation would correct itself.

[aliquando]

Ask my Wife, Son, and Daughter if fatherhood is moot!

[proudmilitarymrs]

I would have to respond, thus,

Ask my son if his father is irrelevant!!!!!!!!! Dammnit, only fathers that are not involved are irrelevant!!! And I don’t know a single father worth his salt that has been driven from his children by a judge. Stay involved by any means necessary, is it hard, hell yeah it’s hard, just do it. Your kids demand it! Oh and God thinks it’s a pretty good idea also.

mrs

[Salvation]

   

2377 Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children." "Under the moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses' union . . . . Only respect for the link between the meanings of the conjugal act and respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation in conformity with the dignity of the person."

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2376 Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses' "right to become a father and a mother only through each other."

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Fatherhood and In-Vitro Fertilization:How Abortion Has Destroyed Families (Fatherhood is Irrelevant)

Catholic School Teacher Fired for Having In Vitro

[mockingbyrd]

At three months old, my son first flopped out of my arms towards his daddy. Seven months old now, he still prefers his dad to me. Right now, they are sitting on the couch watching some awful ‘80s sci-fi flick. To willfully deprive a child of a parent, simply because, is the highest form of child abuse, in my mind.

[aliquando]

Amen! You were “ raised right” as they like to say. My son is 12 and thinks I am “too involved”, so I must be doing a good job!

[goldstategop]

Feminism is not about women's equality with men. Its about female superiority over men. The rhetoric disguises the real intent of the radical agenda feminists advocate.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Yaelle]

I know you mean well, but please stop throwing IVF in with abortion. Come on. IVF makes many married couples into devoted and loving parents. There are plenty of single women raising kids they created the old fashioned way with a deadbeat loser, don’t forget.