DREADTRAFFICKING: Rainbow Children? The Cruel Politics Of Baby Shopping - IVF & The VLRC's Final Report (Assisted Reproductive Technology & Adoption)

[UPDATE] Further outrage: lesbian mother sues for the 'wrongful birth' of her second IVF-bought daughter. Claims baby girl will cost her a further $400,000 AUD. Again, how is this brutal commodification of human life good for children? How must the child feel? If these are 'rainbow families', the whole cruel set-up must be rejected as anti-family, anti-child and anti-human.

:: Moral Clarity ::

This one will be short because the issue is clear-cut.

:: Human Trafficking ::

Australian 'gays' buy US baby for $150,000 AUD. Apparently, Age journalist Peter Munro thinks that means ordinary folk are now more 'accepting' of 'gay marriage/parenting'. How? I couldn't read it that way. Purchasing human beings is always wrong. Surely such examples are more typically viewed as yet another reason to oppose 'gay marriage'/adoption. Because, again, how is this good for children?

:: Protect the Innocent ::

If anything, it is time for tighter bans on human trafficking. US states should consider better oversight of surrogacy arrangements. Same sex attracted men and women who think they want children should consider whether or not children need us. If you have to resort to something that, far from resembling the process of child birth, rather has more in common with slavery and battery hen farming, then you are way off the human track. Certainly, the Australian State of Victoria, and all communities, should reject 'reforms' like those proposed by the Victorian Law Reform Commission in its extreme Final Report into 'Assisted Reproductive Technology and Adoption'.*

:: Real Compassion ::

DREADNOUGHT is not saying that all SSA men and women are bad parents, rather that laws should be drafted with a commitment to the ideal. From a child's perspective, the only one that should count, the ideal situation for optimum development is basic. Every human has a right to life. Every child has a right to a mother and a father. It is tragic when circumstances mean a child lacks one or the other, or God forbid, both. Laws that make that tragedy commonplace would, by definition, be deficient. They must be anti-child. Laws that militate against human life at it most vulnerable are necessarily evil.

:: The Upshot ::

Paying a poor woman $35,000 for her baby is obscene, an example of a cruel capitalism facilitating a warped view of human sexuality. Expanding IVF and other techniques that necessarily require the destruction of human life is a grave mistake. Doing so to gratify the whims of single women, lesbians and same sex attracted men further degrades our community. All such activities are an assault on the intrinsic value of the human person. Good people everywhere must resist the culture of death.

*(Not least, because of the potential havoc wreaked on vulnerable, hopeful mothers' bodies).