Pro-life vid of the day: Legal battle brews over embryos’ future
by LauraLoo
As reported by DailyMail UK:
A doctor who froze embryos with her boyfriend after she was diagnosed with cancer is now battling him in court after he broke up with her and said he no longer wants children.
Karla Dunston, 42, maintains that she has the right to have her biological children and should control the future of the embryos, while her ex-boyfriend Jacob Szafranski, 32, argues that he never agreed to give up his say in the matter.
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Call me old-fashioned, but in my opinion it’s NEVER a good idea to make such a weighty legal and moral arrangement of this sort without a couple being married. But now that the children exist, whose side are you on and why?
[HT: WLS890AM Chicago]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
He doesn’t want children? Too bad, he already has them.
The parent who wants them alive should get them. Sadly some of them will most likely end up “discarded” no matter who gets them.
This is the plot to a crappy Jodi Picoult book. I mean literally. In that book, a couple freezes embryos before divorcing. The woman enters a new relationship – with another woman – and wants her children. The husband does not want them but also does not want them raised by gays so he finds a worthy Christian couple and fights for ownership of the embryos so they can be adopted rather than raised in sin. Court case ensues, drama flows.
People are ridiculous.
This contract is binding on both parties. Mr. Szafranski’s goose is cooked and the only question that remains for me is whether he is willing to be a MAN?
Ms. Dunston may end up raising these children without him. I would encourage her to go after the maximum in child support. That will teach this deadbeat a lesson.
Alexandra it’s also the partial plot to a Law and Order SVU episode.
The selfishness of these people is so infuriating. “I want what I want when I want it.”
When will our society stop treating children as property?
Not selfishness Jeanne but self-centeredness. A big difference.
I agree with CT above, he already *has* children with the lady, the lady wants future custody of them, if he doesn’t want shared custody he should be arguing about potential child support and visiting rights, not over whether he should get to kill existing children because he changed his mind.
This is why we must stop manufacturing babies. They are not commodities. They are not our property. We don’t get to make them and then just change our minds. This makes me sick and furious.
IVF has brought way more problems than its worth. Frozen tiny human beings is incredibly disturbing.
I’m a big supporter of marriage. But reserving IVF to married couples wouldn’t solve the many problems of IVF and the way the practice treats human life like a commodity.
Exactly Mary Ann. It’s never a good idea for anyone to make these weighty and immoral arrangements regardless of marital status.
If he’d stated that he “no longer wanted children”, then what business does he have trying to be a part of any decision regarding frozen embryos from him and his Ex doctor GF ?
NONE !
Hit the road, Jack.