When
Madness Reigns, Children Suffer
In
an age obsessed with granting adults
every single whim and craving, often
the biggest losers are children.
We are so intent on pleasing the
desires of adults, especially those
from the various noisy minority
groups, that the wellbeing of children
is often the very last thing taken
into consideration.
And
sometimes this catering to adult
selfishness takes on moonbeam proportions.
I can think of no greater slap in
the face to children and their fundamental
needs than when we cave in to the
homosexual activists who demand
adoption rights and/or access to
fertility treatment. And a case
featured on the front page of yesterday’s Canberra Times really has
to take the cake for sheer madness.
A
lesbian couple is suing a Sydney
obstetrician and gynaecologist because
they had twins through an IVF procedure.
The doctor is being sued for “wrongful
birth” because they only wanted
one child.
The
article quotes the 40-year-old mother
as saying, “I remember sitting on
the couch and feeling devastated,
absolutely devastated”. The article
continues, “She and her partner,
who were living in Watson at the
time, had planned to go to England
after the birth, but their plans
were scrapped when they discovered
they would be having twins, jeopardising
their careers, relationship and
health.”
There
is so much mind-boggling lunacy
going on in this whole story that
one hardly knows where to begin.
But let’s consider just a few issues.
First,
these two lesbians are denying the
two girls (who are now three years
of age) one of the most basic and
fundamental of all human rights:
the right to be born into a family
with one’s own biological father
and mother. As has been shown time
and time again in the social science
research, there is nothing better
for a child than to have been born
and raised in a biological two-parent
family, preferably a married family.
Any
other family structure is proven
to be much less likely to secure
a range of positive outcomes for
the child. But the interests of
the child are the last thing being
considered by the radical social
engineers. Children have now become
just a commodity to please basically
selfish adults who seem to care
little about their wellbeing.
Given
the overwhelming evidence about
the need of children to have their
own biological mother and father,
to deliberately bring children into
the world in other alternative lifestyle
arrangements is arguably a case
of child neglect.
Not
only has this lesbian couple deprived
these girls of a father, but they
are now condemning at least one
of them to a life of rejection and
misery by wishing she had never
been born. What an incredibly anti-child
state of affairs this is. Imagine
growing up knowing that your own
“mother” has publicly declared that
she wished you had never been born.
How will this poor girl cope?
Young
people are already so very vulnerable
and racked with low self-esteem
and feelings of being of no worth.
What is this public rejection of
the child going to do to her?
And
incredibly, the article states that
one of the reasons why these two
lesbians were so devastated was
because of concerns about their
“careers”. The article stated that
the mother is “claiming more than
$400,000 for the cost of raising”
the second child to the age of 21.
Yet,
according to the article, the “birth
mother told the court she earned
more than $100,000 in the recent
financial year, and her partner
also worked full time”. This lesbian
couple seems to be earning more
than many heterosexual couples,
yet they are suing because a second
child will cramp their very cosy
lifestyle.
This
just seems to be the height of selfishness.
Once again, the child is a mere
commodity, apparently meant to fit
into a lifestyle of the rich and
famous. It seems their mindset is
operating something like this: let’s
go out and buy a fancy new sports
car, take a world vacation, and,
oh yeah, let’s throw in a kid with
that as well.
Kind
of like, throw in an order of fries
with the burger and coke. That’s
all this grimy little affair appears
to be. Its all about selfishness
and greed, with children just another
commodity to make the free-wheeling
lifestyle of some adults more fun.
And
then there is the whole problem
of IVF and assisted reproductive
technologies. Briefly stated, in
order to improve their quite low
success rates, IVF specialists tend
to resort to various means, such
as superovulation to produce more
eggs, and implanting more than one
embryo at a time. Of course the
result is quite often multiple births:
twins, triplets, and so on.
The
whole thing is designed to get more
bang for the buck, even though there
are many more medical risks associated
with such procedures. But the fertility
business is just that, another business,
where profits come first, and cost-cutting
measures take priority over health
and safety concerns.
Suffice
it to say that we seem to have lost
the plot altogether. Chesterton
said it well: “When common sense
ceases to be common, a society is
in terminal decay.” So intent are
we on catering to lunacy that we
are quickly on the verge of losing
many of the gains made in the last
few millennia of Western civilisation.
How much longer any nation can last
when we continue down a path of
reckless disregard for reason, for
common sense, and for our own children,
remains to be seen. But one suspects
it cannot be too long.
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=general&story_id=1055274&category=general
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