Ruth Institute Blog

An article at TheCatholicLeader.com laments that the Parliament of the Australian state of Queensland recently passed a law that extensively liberalized the use of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).

Of particular importance to opponents of the bill (such as KidsRightsCount.org) was the issue of surrogacy, especially as it relates to same-sex parenting.

If you go to their website and click on <multimedia> at the top of the page you can find excellent videos that discuss ART and its legal, moral, and social ramifications. (Surrogacy & A Child’s Sense of Identity and The New Stolen Generation, for example.)

Understand that in America, as things stand now, there would be no controversy over any of this. That’s because (what very few people realize is) in the United States there are fewer regulations on ART than probably any other developed nation in the world – or almost any other nation in the world period, for that matter. You can do virtually anything you want reproductively in America without any consideration for how it affects anyone involved, least of all the children conceived.

Does anyone (besides me) have any concerns about that?