Anyone who’s raised children will understand that it’s a fairly ego-destroying process for significant periods of time. In the early years your sleep patterns are hugely disrupted, your social life hits a somewhat lower gear and holidays can sometimes involve almost as much work as relaxation. As for those days when one could jump on a plane for a last minute weekend city break to somewhere romantic like Rome or Manchester….. nah.
From a purely accounting point of view, the decision to become a parent is irrational. For most people, however, it’s a quite selfless act of altruism to bring a new life into the world, nurture it, keep it safe from harm and gradually let them gain increasing levels of independence.
Science has other plans for us, it seems. As we’ve seen recently, science now enables pathologically-single late middle-aged women to fly to third world countries, ignore the orphans languishing in state institutions, buy someone else’s fertilised eggs and give birth to a child with which they share no common genes.
Hopefully Manda is learning to be a little less self-centred by now, but we doubt it.
She has a lesbian equivalent in the USA, it would seem; same sex couple play pass the parcel with an embryo.
The question that remains unanswered throughout the article linked above is, why?
There are hints scattered around though, if one cares to search. For example;
Although they both hoped to one day have children, Bliss wanted a baby that was biologically hers but did not want to be pregnant.
Gosh, that’s a bit of a problem, eh? Speaking personally, I’d quite like to have a big night out drinking the finest wines known to humanity until sunrise, have a couple of hours shuteye and wake up with a clear head.
Same-sex female couples usually have children via a sperm donor with one woman carrying the baby and the other adopting it.
However, both Bliss and Ashleigh wanted to be involved.
Hmm, well, if it’s that important a solution must be found.
Bill’s Opinion
On a scale of selfishness, Bliss and Ashleigh are certainly not as extreme as our friend Manda who, but for the purchase of someone else’s baby, was one step away from buying cats.
It does seem somewhat self-centred nonetheless. And that’s ignoring the stupid first name the poor lad has been saddled with. Tssk, Texans, eh?
Let’s give the last word to their doctor, Cathy “howdy” Doody, who presumably said this without a hint of irony or sarcasm;
Dr Doody believes Effortless Reciprocal IVF allows same-sex female couples to have a unique bond with their babies and makes for a more ‘natural’ pregnancy.
Hey, don’t mess with Texas, Billy (unless you’re Californian, apparently, and can come here and right fuck up the place).
My lesbian niece is donating her egg to her wife, who will carry the baby. The recipient wife is rail-thin with boyish hips, while my niece is a healthy and shapely hispanic. However everyone not in their immediate family pretends not to notice this ridiculous logic because we care for them and it’s their choice. Thus the ever present curmudgeonly tolerance of a healthy free society grinds on.
I love Texas and Texans. They are always so polite. Concealed Carry laws tend to have that effect, I suspect.
Also, Chicken Fried Steak is the epitome of culinary sophistication.
Both hyperlinks point to the same article, “Not alone again unnaturally.” I think that the second was intended to link to a story about the effortlessly reciprocal Texans?
Ah, ok. I’ll fix that up shortly.
Thanks.