AlesD Posted August 7, 2014 Posted August 7, 2014 They sell it as this is for lesbian couples but if you read closely it is basically a government subsidy for single mother to have kids. Later in the article they say that they expect that a large percentage of clients will be professional single women who want to have a baby without a man. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714321/NHS-fund-sperm-bank-lesbians-New-generation-fatherless-families-paid-YOU.html
cab21 Posted August 7, 2014 Posted August 7, 2014 what about adoptions? what about saving babies that would otherwise be aborted? 1
Eternal Growth Posted August 8, 2014 Posted August 8, 2014 what about adoptions? what about saving babies that would otherwise be aborted? These options provide much less scope for a prospective single mother to choose desirable characteristics for the sperm donor. Related article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/magazine/319dad.html?fta=y
cab21 Posted August 9, 2014 Posted August 9, 2014 These options provide much less scope for a prospective single mother to choose desirable characteristics for the sperm donor. Related article: http://www.nytimes.c...9dad.html?fta=y i can see that if it was private costs, though this was a government program, from a government health department. i don't know if that it's government funded that i should expect something more about the health of children rather than the desires of the mother for a government run eugenics program.
MMX2010 Posted August 9, 2014 Posted August 9, 2014 Later in the article they say that they expect that a large percentage of clients will be professional single women who want to have a baby without a man. Their self-description isn't accurate, though. If they really wanted "to have a baby without a man", then they wouldn't acquire human sperm to fuse with an egg to produce a baby. What they really want is "to have a baby without risking rejection from men", which is really "to have a baby without appealing to male sensibility, male standards of morality and attraction, or male-opinion of any kind", which is really "to have a baby by 100% disempowering men". ----------------------- This post is seemingly unrelated, but I have difficulty refraining from injecting Rollo Tomasini, the author at therationalmale.com, into gender-discussions. His most recent post was brilliant, and this was my favorite line: "Besides the fact that she’s had multiple “relationships” at age 23, I find it interesting that she’s recognized this ‘openness’ as a mistake. Not a mistake with regards to her own choices, but rather a mistake in feeling comfortable enough to lay bear her sexual strategy for a guy who should expects should already be “accepting of who she is.” My comment: "In order for her to recognize her openness as a mistake with regard to her own choices, she must have actual empathy for what a man needs, wants, and cares about. Instead, she recognizes her openness as a mistake with regard to getting what she wants from him - which means she possesses no empathy for a man's needs, wants, and desires; she only, instead, has a selfish sense of cause-and-effect: 'If I say X, he gets mad, and I don't get what I want when he gets mad, so I shouldn't say X.'" http://therationalmale.com/2014/08/07/open-hypergamy/
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