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Marijke,
Surrogate motherhood is a violation of the right of the child to be born
of its natural parents as the fruit of the nuptial union of love.
Further,
it treats the child as a product to be provided parents and assumes that
parents have a right to a child.
Finally, the procreation of the child
is achieved either by adultery (in which case, the mother is not a surrogate,
but the true mother, and this case should be called a surrogate spouse,
which is absurd, or by an insemination technique involving masturbation,
which is also gravely sinful.
Making a child
the product of a technique that is not from the marital union treats the
child as a product and if it is done between married couples — not
the case with surrogate motherhood — it violates the marital union. Also,
the union of the husband's sperm with the egg of the surrogate is a
form of adultery.
Worst of
all, the use of (IVF) In Vitro Fertilization technologies in surrogate
motherhood generally involves the destruction or freezing (for
later destruction or experimentation and destruction) of several embryonic
human beings. This is a worse-than-Nazi violation of the sanctity of
human life.
Finally, the use of sperm banks violates, besides what is applicable
above, the child's right to a known genetic and familial heritage,
and creates future problems for society as relatives unknowingly marry
one another.
Surrogate motherhood has been treated very cavalierly in our society, because
people feel, (not think), that it is right to provide
a child for every woman who wants a child (as if children are
supposed to be consumer goods), and because the homosexual rights
movement, believes that lesbians have a right to have children.
Mary Ann
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