Bill and Giuliana Rancic pregnant via surrogate
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on (which meant Giuliana will have to wait years before trying to personally get pregnant), this was our last effort.
The prayers were answered.
~ Bill Rancic of reality shows Giuliana and Bill and The Apprentice, shares news of he and wife Giuliana’s pregnancy via the use of a surrogate, as quoted on Today, April 23
Apr.24, 2012 1:00 am |
IVF, Pop Culture, Pregnancy |
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.
But life doesn’t begin at fertilization, right?
The last time you posted an item about her, Jill, it didn’t go very well. Just sayin.’
PS–does grandson have a name yet? Did I miss it?
I posted this quote today.
The posts carder and I choose during the week may or may not agree with the pro-life position, but they are posted because they deal with life/reproductive issues and they are in the news.
I thought Bill’s quote was interesting because it actually shows that the “frozen embryos” that so many disregard in IVF are actual human children.
I personally feel like this couple has gone well beyond the “norm” to have a child that is biologically theirs instead of going the path of adoption. Not sure what to make of it. The fact that he says the route of a surrogate was their last option makes me wonder.
Excellent instruction from the Vatican on these kinds of bioethical questions can be found in the 2008 document, Dignitas Personae
I’m glad that their embryos weren’t deliberately destroyed, however, I wish and pray that people stop treating human beings like products.
Our culture has come to believe that children are a commodity that can be bought and sold, polished or discarded at any time, according to the desires of the parents.
They are as happy as a wino with a full bottle of booze — and they do not understand why pro-life activists are not happy for them.
They are not horrified by the frankenstein culture that they live in.
ninek,
You went where I feared to tread when this post arrived last night.
I’ve always thought it’s better to be blessed with a baby. Somehow, “Let’s go make a baby” seems a little…I don’t know. There are babies out there. Waiting.
The issue here is that children are a blessing, a gift from God, not a right, not something that we DESERVE! The problem is when we fail to see God as our co-creator in Christ, and when we think that we humans are the author of life and death.
In this case, the morality of “the end justifies the means” is being applied here, and yet, we can now see not just how evil IVF is, but how, when the human embryo is taken from the marital relation, and a third party is inserted into the equation, how evil rears its ugly head in the form of wanton destruction and experimentation on human embryonic life – to the point that we are paying millions of dollars for research in this arena, and somehow it is considered “moral and good”.
As happy as I am for these two being parents … the ends do not justify the means. I am sorry that she had breast cancer, but I cannot help but wonder if all the treatment she had for her IVF is to blame.
It’s so hard to be the voice saying “you can’t have children, if you can’t have them the old fashioned way.” Infertility is a tremendous burden, it’s debilitating in its effects on body and soul. How crazy to you sound saying “Yes, I know there’s a technique out there that can make you a mother or father! But you must forego it, for it’s wrong in the sight of God.” Yet, how beautiful is the example of one who does not arrogate to herself or himself the power that belongs to God alone. Who embraces the lonely hardship of bareness. Who sees within it the opportunity to devote one’s life to a worthy project, or to give themselves as parents to an orphan. I feel for this couple. I hope their child is healthy and that he or she brings them joy. But I can’t help feeling that they’ve wrested from nature a good that God did not have in store for them.
As long as there’s big money to be made from affluent couples, the “doctors” who profit from this have absolutely no motivation to learn about and eradicate the causes of infertility.
There aren’t babies waiting to be adopted. This is a straw man used to justify legalized abortion. It’s very difficult to adopt an infant.
I have very dear friends who have been unable to conceive after over 10 years of marriage. They have served overseas in a developing nation for the past decade, working amongst the poor. They have a special ministry to several local orphanages, but the government won’t allow non-nationals to adopt babies, even though there are thousands waiting for permanent homes. My friends are now in the final stages of jumping through the many bureaucratic hoops required for them to adopt four teenaged boys. Love wins.
All of you pro lifers are extremely ignorant!! An embryo is not a human it is a group of cells that will eventually in the right environment thrive and BECOME human! Everyone has the right to their own choices keep your close mindedness to yourself!!!
Before you became human Stacy what were you?
When did you become a human being?
Stacy, “embryo’ is a description of development. For example, there are embryo dogs, embryo chickens, embryo horses, embryo woodchucks. There are also embryo humans, but their age does not preclude them from being fully human. There is no part of their cellular makeup that is NOT human. In fact, every human, including yourself, was an embryo (not for long!) at one point in time. There is no “becoming human.” Either you are or you’re not. Now, why would anyone be vulnerable to murder just because of age?? And, according to you, what is the “right environment”? (other than a mother’s uterus, which is exactly where the human embryo is)?
Carla! I knew someone else besides myself would have to bite! Now, where is X?
Hi Courtnay,
Here is a factoid for you…
Tiny, innocent human babies do not THRIVE when torn from their mother’s wombs.
I know!!!
btw Stacy
If name calling is the best you’ve got then you must really know what you are talking about.
And in commenting here you have obviously not kept your “open mindedness” to yourself.
There ARE babies available for adoption – I adopted three …
Infertility can be viewed as a burden or as a joy – it depends on what you wish to do with the fact of one’s infertility.
Stacy,
I find it very interesting that you call us ignorant while demonstrating a disturbing lack of understanding of human development, a concept taught in basic biology.
A human embryo is indeed a human being, albeit one in the early stages of development.
Nobody has the right to choose to kill an innocent human being. It is not “close-minded” to oppose the killing of innocent children.
Please open YOUR mind, read a biology textbook to educate yourself on this topic, and THEN come back to discuss this. I don’t mean to be unkind, but I don’t think you realize how foolish you have made yourself look.
Didn’t Abraham have his first child Ishmael via a surrogate named Hagar because his wife was supposedly barren?
I couldn’t be happier for Giuliana and her husband. They have endured so much. I wish them healthy a baby(ies) and many long happy years together.
Stacy,
There are any number of environments you could never survive in. Does that determine your humanity?
i like G and bill. this couple has endured a lot. i wish them well n pray tht they have healthy babies.
They have said they want to incorporate their catholic faith into their child rearing. However, according to the faith they say they embrace, IVF and surrogacy are both mortal sins. The bishop in their diocese or the priest at their parish has the responsibility to tell them this, assuming they just don’t know.