Gore Channel promotes egg donations
A Wall Street Journal editorial today disparages Al Gore’s new channel, Current TV.
Two points:
1) WSJ explained one component of the channel: “Would-be video contributors were directed to the station’s Web site with the entreaty, ‘Be a citizen-journalist…. Everybody has a story to tell that’s interesting.'” Reader Mike P., who gets a hat tip for drawing my attention to the WSJ editorial, suggests that pro-lifers in Current’s target 18-34 year old age group submit pieces. As Mike wonders, “Interesting if they get run or if they get rejected.”
2) The last line of the WSJ piece caught my eye: “Other pods look suspiciously like infomercials…. Another features a company seeking egg donors. If you’re a broke college student, a host quips, ‘Why sling latte when you can score $5,000 giving an egg to a childless couple in need?'”
I checked the Current web site, and sure enough, one of the featured segments, “Current Issue,” is “A Perfect Egg,” which is “a look at the world of egg donors…”
Make no mistake. This is really all about embryonic stem cell experimentation and desensitizing the youth population about exploiting women for eggs.
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.
Having just finished college and grad school back-to-back, I was bombarded with advertisements asking for my eggs or the eggs of similar women with comparable SAT/ACT scores. They package it so sweetly- You are HELPING a childless couple while earning an entire semester’s tuition. Why not? I even had a Christian girlfriend consider it.
I then explained to her that she was selling her eggs to become dead children, she thought twice. But few people think about this. They beleive that they are giving a couple a child when the truth is that the odds of your donated eggs surving the implantation process are so slim that they harvest 5 eggs from you-knowing that there is only a 25% chance that one embryo will survive. So you’re selling four of your children into certain death. You should not take any chances with unborn children that you wouldn’t take with born ones. If I concieve naturally and my child dies naturally, I know my actions were irrelevant to his/her death. In-vitro fertilization we KNOW is dangerous and most often deadly.
I appreciate the blog entry. I hope that more people raise awareness of this issue.
Of course, it is easy to make the extension of this comment and apply it to stem cell research and its need for donors. I am aware of at least several calculations suggesting that millions of eggs are necessary from hundreds of thousands of women in order to meet the likely demands of research. This appears to be a prime opportunity for female exploitation.
If you had done your research before critisizing this network, you would know that the whole station depends on viewer-created content and ‘The Perfect Egg’ is merely the creation of the filmmakers.
I think it is wonderful that there is a station out there that airs diverse opinions from young viewers.
If you feel so passionate about this topic, you should get stop hating and make your own film.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1540976,00.html
You can read a positive review about Current TV’s ‘The Perfect Egg’ in the UK’s weekly paper ‘The Guardian’
Writer Bree declares:
“if you feel so passionate about this topic, you should stop hating and make your own film.” referring to the WSJ editorial on Gore’s new TV channel.
Where is the hate? Is it that in writer Bree’s world opposition equals hate? Logic and fact based opposition to embryonic stem cell research and abortion is not hate. Of course, most supporters of these issues don’t care to deal in the facts. To do so destroys their argument, which lacks in logic.
Writer Bree is right about one thing. A film exploring the explotation of women and the thriving “egg production” industry is long overdue.