Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Now they decide it's a bad idea

What do you know - there are two men with experience in the field who now have some regrets about where the "anything goes" approach to modern reproduction leads us:

Exhibit A:  not so well known actor Jason Patric, who is having a court brawl (and waging a PR campaign) regarding his rights to have a relationship with his biological son.  Yeah, he was happy enough to give a long term on again, off again girlfriend a sperm donation (delivered via artificial insemination, though - really, why did they bother with that if they had been long term lovers before - oh that's right, that would be too much like how babies are made by nature) and all was well for the first couple of years when he did see his son.  Then they stopped being friends and he was told to shove off.   It seems the laws designed to stop genuine anonymous sperm donors from interfering with parental "rights" are being used against Mr Patric.   This probably seems unfair to most people - when what they should be objecting to is people making babies in such a manner way in the first place.

Exhibit B:  reproductive technology cheer leader Robert Winston now is having misgivings about rich people soon making "designer babies".   What, he's only got around to watching Gattaca now?  Bit slow on the uptake, you "lesbians using reproductive technology is fine because they'll probably make fantastic mothers" claiming populariser of making babies in a way none at all would have existed before.

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