In what appears to be a gee-whiz-why-didn’t-someone-think-of-this-ages-ago, forehead-slapping moment, a writer for a previously undiscovered (by me) online publication out of Canada has presented what she sees as THE solution to “a large portion of the abortion problem”.
Ready for it?
Transoption!
And it works like this:
There are women who find themselves pregnant when they don’t want to be. There are other women who are trying desperately to get pregnant but can’t. What we need to do is match the two groups up and transplant the unwanted fetuses of the former into the wombs of the latter in a form of pre-birth adoption. That way, pregnant women can cease to be pregnant without killing fetuses, and would-be mothers can adopt infants without having to comb the world for them.
Apparently, this works with cows … although comments to the contrary are rife following the article … so how big a jump could it take?
Simple, heh? Easy peasy.
But, hold on a minute …
Aren’t we forgetting something? Oh, yeah … children aren’t calves that grow up to be cud-chewing, slow-witted burgers-on-the-hoof, so even if this process is medically feasible there just might be a few niggling issues of ethics and identity involved.
Funny how the end product … the children, fercryinoutloud … can be completely left out of the equation, isn’t it? Okay. Not funny, especially when it happens as often as it does.
Speaking of the kids, there is hopeful news coming out of New Jersey as a panel in the State Senate unanimously approved a bill that will allow adult adoptees access to their OBCs.
Rapper and adoptee rights advocate Darryl McDaniels (DMC) gave testimony in favor of unsealing birth records, saying: This is really about identity and truth of a human being’s existence.
Once again, I’m confused by those who take the opposite stance:
Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life, said she and a coalition of other opponents would continue to fight the legislation. “This is not a compassionate choice at all.”
Huh?
Where do self-proclaimed “Right to Life” people meet this issue so abruptly that they feel the need to fight legislation in favor of open records?
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I can’t see why they would be against that.
And how transplanting a fetus to another womb is possible. Is it? I didn’t know it was.
According to the comments on the site, the science is more difficult that this writer makes it sound. As we should know, cows are one thing …
Seriously? This is just disturbing. It is disturbing (to me) that they are doing it with cows – and people is a whole other ballgame. IMO, this type of genetic engineering with our food production systems is just asking for trouble. When all the differences in the genetic make-up of a plant or animal are eliminated by selective breeding (and this to me is the extreme of selective breeding) you end up with all the recessive-recessive issues. Think hip displasia (sp?) in golden retrievers. Think Irish potato blight. And don’t even get me started on M0nsanto.
But that isn’t what you are really what the post was about. Yes – just a few niggling issues of ethics and identity. But you know (tongue firmly planted in cheek), at least they (adoptees) wouldn’t be aborted so they should be thankful. Ugh.
Geez I must be really out of the loop – I had no idea that some cows were facing the crises of unwanted pregnancies and others were in despair because of their infertility. Thank God they have options. I really must climb out from under my rock….
Thanks for some laughs the last couple of days. Both your entries, and the comments have brought a chuckle! Especially the comments.
I can always count on you for something interesting!
Yeah no thanks with the cow, i’ll pass on that one for SURE!
I added Ms. Tasy to my own personal hitlist on my blog just for her testimony. In my personal opinion shes been so busy advocating for adoption over abortion that shes forgotten to read the facts, stats and history of the states that have opened their records to see that the states with open records have all had drops in abortion.
Silly woman. She has some homework to do.
Thanks for the laugh, Heather!!!