No Fathers, Please, We’re British

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2008-05-21 17:44

A quote from The Times, 20 May 2008

Single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights last night as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting” after opponents were defeated in two votes by unexpectedly wide margins. The Government had been prepared for defeat but won the free votes by majorities of 75 and 68. The decisions mean that the legislation will grant the most significant extension to homosexual family rights since gay adoption was sanctioned. [...]

The Government has now won all four of the measures on which it agreed to grant Labour MPs a free vote. Moves to allow the creation of hybrid embryos for medical research, and “saviour siblings” screened as suitable tissue donors for sick children, were passed by large majorities on Monday. [...]

The law will now be brought into line with the Human Rights Act. The Bill will also allow both partners to be recognised as parents when lesbian couples conceive with donated sperm, or gay men use surrogacy. At present, only the natural mother or father is automatically considered to be a parent when gay couples have fertility treatment.

Makes me sick. I grew up

Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Thu, 2008-05-22 09:19.

Makes me sick. I grew up without a father and would not wish this on anyone. Of course my opinion (and my own experience) will be dismissed as racist, sexist, neo-nazi etc. You know the drill. I am very-pro gay rights but this stops with raising children for me. I pitty any boy being raised by two lesbians.

Regarding the human hybrids this has been going on for more than 30 years at least. Just shows how ignorant the discussion is and how poorly educated the opposition to biological research is but then again how can you teach/learn proper biology when you are a creationist?

Frankenstein Babies???

Submitted by B. English on Wed, 2008-05-21 21:42.

The whole thing is too weird!

A baby farm? People protest experimentation on animals, so now we breed babies for experiments? Sounds too much like Nazi Germany.

The other topic is disturbing, but now they have a new generation of recruits. Notice how the law must first blur the lines of common sense in order to engineer our society to the whim of politicians.

@ traveller

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Wed, 2008-05-21 19:28.

More a case of glasses and optics. (My team is playing in the European Cup Final tonight).

;-)