This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
From Leah Garchik's "Public Eavesdropping" feature in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"I don't have a dad, I have a donor."--One boy to another--do donor's get ties on Father's Day?--overheard in a kindergarten class by T. A. Francis.Worse still: Many of us won't see why that is sad.
Labels: Brave New World Consequences
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:11 AM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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I don't know who T.A. Francis is. Is this supposed to be something real that somebody really overheard? That's terrible, if so. The reality is terrible enough, but the effect on the child is an additional horror.
Yes. The feature is about things real people say that are overheard and then sent to the writer of the column.
Is it worse to have a donor who is never present or to have a "dad" who leaves of his own volition? Seems like the second one is much worse and much more common.
Matteson:What is it they say about two wrongs...? We are creating a world that explicitly says fathers don't really matter, and we are doing that in many ways. That does not serve our children well.
"Worse still many of us won't see why this is sad." (Hope I remembered that quote correctly.) It is very sad indeed! We are too quick to believe all the lies that are fed to us! To believe it is NOT sad...is a lie. We are indeed a nation of sheep. Wesley, I totally agree with your response to Matteson.
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