Adoption-Related Links
 Reproductive
Technologies - Artificially-Created Orphans - Surrogacy and Donor
Insemination "Adoption"
Sperm Donation, Egg Donation, Embryo
Donation are all forms of adoption
Son of a Surrogate
- This "son of a surrogate" explains that the "surrogate"
is actually his true mother.
Reproductive
Technologies: Emotional Adoption. - Adoption means separation
from true family. Sperm "donation", egg "donation"
and embryo "donation" are all forms of adoption from the
viewpoint of the child growing up "owned by" unrelated people
who have removed his access to - and right to be raised by - his real
mother, father and other family members.
Sperm
Donor Registry - A registry not just for siblings but for
the true fathers of donor insemination adoptees.
Hello,
I'm Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150. -
"For children who often feel severed from half of their [family],
finding a sibling - or in some cases, a dozen - can feel like coming
home. It can also make them even more curious about [their actual
father]. The registry especially welcomes [fathers] who want to
shed their anonymity, but the vast majority of the site's 1,001
matches are between half-siblings."
Note that this paragraph originally referred to the actual family
members as if they were only a "biological identity" -
as if they were not human beings, related to one another. They use
the term "donors" who want to shed their anonymity - but
perhaps it would be more honest to acknowledge that these "donors"
are actually the fathers of the children. The male person raising
the child is not the father, even if he is a wonderful caregiver.
Son
of a Sperm "Donor" Finds His Father Through DNA
-- Good for him - he found the Dad that sold him.
"Like many children whose mothers used an anonymous sperm
donor, the 15-year-old boy longed for any shred of information about
his biological father.
But this resourceful teenager decided to try exploiting the latest
in genetic technology and the sleuthing powers of the Internet in
his quest.
By submitting a DNA sample to a commercial genetic database service
designed to help people draw their family tree, the youth found
a crucial clue that quickly enabled him to track down his long-sought
parent."
The big question - why does American law not protect children
by outlawing the the creation of "orphans" via surrogacy,
donor insemination and egg and embryo donation? Why not make it illegal
to solicit or pay someone for their eggs or sperm from which their
own son or daughter may be created and yet be cut off from them?
Why not AT LEAST ensure the human beings created through reproductive
technologies like sperm donation, egg donation and embryo donation
have access to their true parents and siblings?
"When injustice is not confronted
it continues, then those who have the privilege to know have the
duty to act."
Albert Einstein
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to
be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty
God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give
me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
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