Monday, January 29, 2007
FrankenOrphans
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What is the definition of an orphan? No, it's not a trick question.
An orphan is the child of deceased parents.
Why then would someone INTENTIONALLY want to bring an innocent life inot thre world whose father is dead, and mother is "anonymous?"
According to a news article several people! grandparents with a need to have their "name carried on" and a grandchild to replace their deceased sons. Talk about a heavy load to place on a child...not to mention the creepiness and the confusion.
Try, learning that you were conceived from sperm extracted from you daddy AFTER he was DEAD!
Do people who do these garish things - and the courts that allow them to - give any concern to the best interest of these creations?
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Besides, the potential mess surrogacy often creates when the mother she decides she cannot let go so easily, after all.
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Court grants parents the right to impregnate stranger with son's sperm
JERUSALEM - In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier’s family can use his sperm to impregnate a woman he never met.
Keivan Cohen, 20, was shot dead in 2002 by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip. He was single and left no will. But at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since.
When the family tried to gain access to the sperm, however, the hospital refused, on the ground that only a spouse could make such a request. Arguing that their son yearned to raise a family, his parents challenged that decision in court. And on Jan. 15, after a four-year legal battle, a Tel Aviv court granted the family’s wish and ruled that the sperm could be injected into a woman selected by Cohen’s family.
Rosenbaum said she knew of more than 100 cases of Israeli soldiers who, before last summer’s war with Lebanese guerillas, asked to have their sperm saved if they were killed. American soldiers have also begun donating sperm before heading to Iraq, she said.
“I think it is a human revolution,” Rosenblum said. “Ten years ago, who would believe that a human being can continue after he has died. I think it is great for humanity.”
Rosenblum said the woman who is to act as surrogate mother has requested to remain anonymous.
“She’s like family to us,” Rachel Cohen told the Tribune. “Cruel and good fate brought us together.”
WHERE HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE??!! She's "family" until she lays the golden egg...and Heaven forbid she decides she wants to really be a mother!
What is the definition of an orphan? No, it's not a trick question.
An orphan is the child of deceased parents.
Why then would someone INTENTIONALLY want to bring an innocent life inot thre world whose father is dead, and mother is "anonymous?"
According to a news article several people! grandparents with a need to have their "name carried on" and a grandchild to replace their deceased sons. Talk about a heavy load to place on a child...not to mention the creepiness and the confusion.
Try, learning that you were conceived from sperm extracted from you daddy AFTER he was DEAD!
Do people who do these garish things - and the courts that allow them to - give any concern to the best interest of these creations?
http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Besides, the potential mess surrogacy often creates when the mother she decides she cannot let go so easily, after all.
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Court grants parents the right to impregnate stranger with son's sperm
JERUSALEM - In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier’s family can use his sperm to impregnate a woman he never met.
Keivan Cohen, 20, was shot dead in 2002 by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip. He was single and left no will. But at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since.
When the family tried to gain access to the sperm, however, the hospital refused, on the ground that only a spouse could make such a request. Arguing that their son yearned to raise a family, his parents challenged that decision in court. And on Jan. 15, after a four-year legal battle, a Tel Aviv court granted the family’s wish and ruled that the sperm could be injected into a woman selected by Cohen’s family.
Rosenbaum said she knew of more than 100 cases of Israeli soldiers who, before last summer’s war with Lebanese guerillas, asked to have their sperm saved if they were killed. American soldiers have also begun donating sperm before heading to Iraq, she said.
“I think it is a human revolution,” Rosenblum said. “Ten years ago, who would believe that a human being can continue after he has died. I think it is great for humanity.”
Rosenblum said the woman who is to act as surrogate mother has requested to remain anonymous.
“She’s like family to us,” Rachel Cohen told the Tribune. “Cruel and good fate brought us together.”
WHERE HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE??!! She's "family" until she lays the golden egg...and Heaven forbid she decides she wants to really be a mother!
# posted by Senior Mom @ 12:28 PM 
