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It seems Pope Francis needs to brush up on his Tertullian!

It has been reported (in The ChristLast Media, I must note) that the current Pope does not like the phrase "lead us not into temptation...

"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture." -- Pope Sixtus III

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

In vitro, no one can hear you scream...again.

I would think there would be more cries of outrage from certain groups over this...like Jews and the descendants of African slaves.

NBC 5 Chicago: More Couples Using Egg Donation For 'Designer' Babies
The price is going up for women to donate their own eggs to help other women have children, and demands for so-called "designer babies" may be on the increase as well.

Egg donation is an often painful procedure requiring a series of hormone shots, many doctor's visits, and dozens of tests.

Toughen up, buttercup. No pain, no 20 Gs.

Ads are tucked in campus newspapers across the country that say "help create a family," and "egg donors wanted -- earn up to 20,000."

Chicago fertility specialist Joel Brasch said it's a remarkably popular phenomenon for women who's own eggs don't work.

"Egg donation in the U.S. has increased 10 times in the last decade," said Brasch.

For women like Kristina Bos, it's good news.

"I had both of my ovaries removed from endometriosis, so that choice to have my own child was taken away from me," she lamented.

But Bos did get to choose the biological mother of her child.

She knew everything about the egg donor except her name.

"We were able to look at her family history, medical history, nationality, choice of religion," said Bos. "I have no idea where she lives."

"Choice of religion"?

Ryan was born early last year.

Bos' donor received $3,000. But other women are paid far more, especially if they advertise their eggs.

And parents in search of donors ante up for a specific look, or that certain IQ.

Dr. Mengele, call your office. (That's three posts in a row! It may be a Mengele record.)

Ivy league newspapers are offering 50-thousand dollars for a tall thin blond athletic ivy league educated donor who also had sat scores in a certain range.

IQ tests are not as of yet standard testing for egg donors, but they will be soon.

And you think it is merely hyberbole when I say sometimes there are Nazis among us.

Neither Brasch nor endocrinologist Sigal Klipstein screen for high donor IQ. They think it's unethical to pay for designer babies.

But prospective parents still get to make a lot of very specific choices from a long list of donors.

"They told me they had someone who wanted someone who has fair skin with blue eyes," said donor Tammi Doeing.

She said it wasn't money or genes that made her donate her eggs. She said she wanted to help people.

"And it was worth everything that I did, that she had a baby," Doeing remembered.

For Bos, there is a constant reminder of the motherhood she shares with another woman -- giving birth to her son.

"It was a feeling I could just not describe," she said. "I'm looking at my husband, I'm looking at Ryan. I would never forget it."

May God have mercy on our souls.

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First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct. "My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up. What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.

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