World Net Daily: Gay Parents Are Going To Abort Their Straight Babies!

[WillParkinson]

World Net Daily: Gay Parents Are Going To Abort Their Straight Babies!

Even though all good Christians know that homosexuality is a choice, today World Net Daily warns that thanks to "mushrooming genomic advances," it won't be long before gay parents are going to selectively abort heterosexual babies.

If two homosexual men want to use in vitro fertilization to conceive a baby and then use genetics technology to ensure the baby is also "gay," while disposing of any "straight" embryos, would the law have any ethical problems with that? John A. Robertson of the University of Texas Law School is the chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and an advocate of what his book "Children of Choice" calls "procreative liberty." In a paper for the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution, Robertson presents a futuristic scenario where advancing science and society's evolving morality could create a once only dreamed-of ethical dilemma:

"Larry, a pediatrician, and David, a wills lawyer, meet in their late 20s, fall in love, and marry on June 15, 2025, in Indianapolis," Robertson writes. "By 2030, they are well-enough established in their careers to think about having their own child. Larry's 24-year-old sister Marge has agreed to donate her eggs, and David will provide the sperm, so that each partner will have a genetic connection with the child. … In the process, Larry and David come to realize that they would prefer to have a male child that shares their sexual orientation." He continues, "The clinic doctors are experts in embryo screening and alteration, but cannot guarantee that the resulting embryos will in fact turn out to be homosexual. To increase the certainty, they will insert additional 'gay gene' sequences in the embryos."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-net-daily-gay-parents-are-going.html

[OHdem10]

1. Projecting Again. What they really mean-- they (Anti-Gay)

wish they could this to their potentially gay children.

[Smashcut]

7. +1

This is exactly what I was going to say.

[Drale]

2. OMG!!!

I also heard that Hitler is plotting with the Legion of Doom to assassinate Jesus while Darth Vader plans to buy yellow cake uranium from unwed teenage mothers. THE HORROR!!!! :rofl: What fundamentalist bullshit will they come up with next?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. What ever they come up with, there will be another confused nut with a gun

who will believe it, and act accordingly.

I continue to be concerned about my gay family members and friends.

Meanwhile, most people will see the joke in the idea and just laugh.

[egressingsparrowdrop]

4. I don't see that claim being made by WorldNetDaily

They are referencing a book in which a reproductive lawyer/ethicist muses about such a possibility/choice existing.

Certainly, they bring it up with the intent of stoking anti-gay sentiment and fears, but I cherish the truth more than anything - especially headlines.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

5. Project Much?

I suspect this is what they would do to their gay babies if there was a test that could show that. They project their worst onto us and call it "truth".

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. So there is a manipulatable "gay gene", but people aren't born gay, its a lifestyle choice?

Which is it?

[kelly1mm]

8. Interesting ethical question. We currently do not have any restrictions

on abortion in the first trimester here in the US. If/when a prenatal test is available for a 'gay gene', should the mother have the right to abort just for that reason? I suppose that with the current tests available you could tell the eye/hair color and abort for that reason (not that I believe that is widespread) and that is not restricted so I further suppose the mother could abort for whatever reason she wants, be that a serious disease or something most would consider trivial such as hair color or sexual orientation. It does raise some disturbing thoughts though.