Posted by
Mike on Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:37:03 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
The problems raised by Michael Jackson's estate bring to the fore the
complete lack of foresight bringing about chaos through liberal
ideology. The three children in question were all apparently conceived
in vitro,
the first two carried to term by Jackson's ex-wife Deborah Rowe, as a
surrogate or "breeder", the third having been carried to term by an
unknown surrogate. The legality of all of this is highly questionable.
If a couple or individual can pay a "fertility clinic" to manufacture
embryos and/or implant preexisting embryos into the womb of the
contracting spouse or individual, or another surrogate unrelated to the
contracting parties, what is there to prevent women from getting
pregnant as "surrogates" for others with no intention whatsoever of
raising their offspring in a healthy environment? Is this not the
equivalent of slavery? The very acts of
in vitro
fertilization and implantation cause injury and harm to the child to be conceived and
born by depriving that child of a God-given right to be conceived
through a loving marital act. This is not a right devised by man, and
it cannot be abrogated by man. The participants also harm themselves,
particularly the man who provides the seed for conception through a
deliberate act contrary to his own male nature.
Since these children are harmed from the gate, should we allow any of the
contracting parties to have custody of the children? The children have
already been exploited as a means to an end by the adults involved
including doctors and fertility clinic operators. Should we now add
insult to injury by giving custody to one or more adults who are
in pari delicto
and who have caused this injury? We see the results of taking this
approach in the way Jackson treated the youngest boy by dangling him
over a balcony in a Berlin hotel with face covered, and the child being
then given the derogatory nickname "Blanket" which will probably stick
for the end of his life.
In order to stop these terrible
practices, our courts will have to rethink the entire notion of
"reproductive rights", including the question of whether prospective
rights exist for all human beings which precede conception and are
above the state and man-made law. Only then will we be able to protect
these rights for everyone.