Why I'm Not a Conservative
Because I loathe nearly everything in this editorial by Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Basically, for the 30th Anniversary of the first IVF human birth (that's "Test Tube Baby" to the uninitiated) she posted a screed that basically says "yeah, but it was still the wrong thing to do."
Well, my babies wouldn't be here without it. And if my wife and I had adopted two perfectly cute babies from WeSellBambinostan, the two human beings going to sleep in their nursery still wouldn't be here.
Basically, I don't think the Pope, let alone Ms. Lopez, has the right to tell anyone how they bring human souls into the world. Or who deserves the chance to nurture those souls. I know a few gay couples and a few "single by choice" moms whom I believe will make damn fine parents, and it's a chance they're getting because of assisted reproduction.
What takes her whole screed from tragic moralizing into political farce, though, is this little throw-away graf:
He also glosses over issues of regulation. The IVF industry, and the market for assisted reproduction, is highly unregulated — an issue, among others, that the president’s bioethics commission took seriously in a report a few years ago. He, further, doesn’t even mention the word “adoption” — an option all too often disregarded, but a generous, beautiful, needed option for infertile couples.
Last I checked, it was part of Conservative dogma that the government shouldn't be in the business of regulating how we live our private lives.
But wait, I guess that only applies when it comes to things like how much we can bequeath tax-free to our children, provided those children were the get of a legally married man and woman who conceived during sexual congress in the missionary position only. With the lights out.
And no porn in the background, either, you degenerates.
Guess it goes to show political junkies are all about controlling others by the short hairs. Right or Left just differentiate each other by how literally that truism should be interpreted.
