by Margaret Somerville
A Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a “win a baby” competition.
An Ottawa music station, Hot 89.9, recently launched a “Win a Baby” contest. The prize offered was up to three rounds of fertility treatment worth C$35,000. It’s reported that the station received around 400 applications “from a diverse range of people, including same-sex couples, single women and cancer patients.” Read more…
by Christopher White
Last week in the Guandong province of China, a two-year-old girl wandered out into a busy street and was hit by a passing van. If the incident doesn’t sound tragic already, what followed can only be described as criminal. After the driver first realized he had run over the young girl, video footage shows him looking out his window, only to continue forward and running over her again with his back right wheel. The surveillance footage also shows that eighteen pedestrians or bicyclers passed by the child without stopping to help until a woman collecting street garbage came along to pick her up. The video ends with a devastated mother running out onto the street looking for her daughter. The likely cause of such neglect? The injured toddler was a girl. Read more…
by Michael Stokes Paulsen
The Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence appears to protect a right to abortion even for reasons of sex selection. Yet this gruesome reality might provide an opening for a frontal assault on the premises of Roe v. Wade. Read more…
What a sad, crazy, messed up world.
By CHAYA BABU – Associated Press
MUMBAI, India (AP) — More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi have chosen new names for a fresh start in life.
A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony Saturday that it hopes will give the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a skewed gender ratio, with far more boys than girls. Read more…
FoxNews.com
Stacie Crimm made the ultimate sacrifice — and she got her dying wish. As doctors and nurses wearing protective gear looked on last month, the 41-year-old mom got to hold her newborn daughter. Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
There was a very moving piece in the New York Timeson Sunday, written by a mother whose 18-month-old son was born with Tay-Sachs disease and is not likely to see his third birthday. Read more…
Infertility can bring so much heartache to couples desperately wanting a baby. Sadly, desperation opens the door for exploitation. Recently, two high-profile surrogacy attorneys, Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman, were caught exploiting surrogates, stealing from California taxpayers and, most horrifically, selling babies. Read more…
by Mark W. Leach
October 7, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/10/4090
New research on Down syndrome presents an overwhelmingly positive picture of how Down syndrome can affect individuals and families. These findings need to be shared as they will affect decisions made to accept prenatal testing and following a prenatal diagnosis. Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
Most couples who marry, even today, probably intend to have one or two children at least. Marriage and the baby carriage (as family scholar Brad Wilcox likes to pair them) have always gone together. But this is not what is meant by the new catch-phrase “intentional parenthood”. Read more…
Categories: Artificial Reproductive Technology, Children, family, Invitro Fertilization, Parenting, Surrogate Mothers Tags: artificial reproductive technologies, babies, Children, family, Parenting, surrogate mothers
September 21st, 2011
Betsy
by Steven W. Mosher
Over the years, I have been asked many times to estimate how many lives have been lost in China as a result of the one-child policy. Given that the policy has been in place for 30 years, I respond, and given that each year the government aborts between 10 to 15 million women, the total number of unborn children whose lives have been sacrificed is somewhere between 300 and 450 million. It is impossible to be more precise, I add, because of the Chinese Communist party’s penchant for secrecy about such sensitive matters. Read more…
September 19th, 2011
Betsy
Here’s your second installment from the parentingisfunny.wordpress.com blog.
When I was in labor at the hospital, O.J. Simpson was driving his white Bronco down a long stretch of highway, being chased by police cars and helicopters. Footage of this was on the TV in the delivery room. All the adults standing in the room were enthralled watching the screen. I just laid there, waiting for them to remember that… Keep reading.
September 7th, 2011
Betsy
by Sheila Liaugminas
We tend to forget that carrying a crisis or difficult pregnancy to term is the other choice.
This Chicago area woman has a remarkable story, by virtue of doing what she deeply held to be what’s right and natural to a mother’s instincts.
Facing adversity, criticism and an uncertain future for her conjoined twins, Amanda Schulten says she chose life. Read more…
September 7th, 2011
Betsy
Way to go, Australia! Boy, wouldn’t I love to have this here!
by Carolyn Moynihan
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This is so sad, considering that often these tests are wrong. How do I know? Because I’ve heard stories of people who were told their baby would be downs, but the baby was born perfectly healthy and normal. How many parents have killed their babies thinking they were downs, when they really weren’t? We’ll never know. And how would they feel if they did know? And yet why should the characteristic of being downs make a difference? Read more…
by Marcus Roberts
Bosnia and Herzegovina has another 650 years or so. Macau has about the same. Germany has just over 1500 years and Brazil another 3000 years. Until what? Until their populations disappear entirely! Read more…
What’s it like to have a child with someone who’s a friend but not a lover? More and more people are doing just that, to satisfy their broodiness. Helen Croydon investigates.
Seven years ago, when Sabrina Morgan, 33, was single and desperate for a child, she found herself chatting to Kam Wong, 41, a gay man who was longing to be a father, in an online fertility forum. ‘I instantly thought he was genuine, down-to-earth, laidback and flexible,’ says Sabrina. Read more…
Wow. Where does it end?
by RUTH PADAWER
As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen. She didn’t want to see the two shadows floating inside her. Since making her decision, she had tried hard not to think about them, though she could often think of little else. She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment — and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion. As the doctor inserted the needle into Jenny’s abdomen, aiming at one of the fetuses, Jenny tried not to flinch, caught between intense relief and intense guilt. Read more…
By TERI FIGUEROA
An internationally known Poway attorney who specialized in reproductive law pleaded guilty Tuesday to a key role in what federal authorities said was a baby-selling ring.
Theresa Erickson, 43, admitted that she and her co-conspirators used women to create an inventory of unborn babies that they would sell for over $100,000 each, according to the San Diego offices of the U.S. attorney. Read more…
Dr. Smith, quoted extensively here, was one of our speakers at the Love and Life in the Divine Plan conference in Nashville.
by Patrick B. Craine
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times launched what one prominent Catholic professor has called a “peculiar” attack on natural family planning (NFP) last week by sharing the tale of a young Evangelical couple that had championed the practice and then recanted, only to get divorced three years later. Read more…
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