Those Darned Conservatives

[snousle]

They just lurv them family values:

Anti-Gay Alabama GOPer Secretly Donated Sperm To Lesbian Couples In New Zealand

Without his wife's knowledge, by the way.

Could you imagine being a pregnant lesbian and discovering the father of your child was an anti-gay Republican? I'd be at the abortion clinic before you could say "alien impregnation".

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[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

and just when you think they are done with "family values" scandals ... out pops another one...

[fogbear.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, being an anti-gay Republican isn't genetic. Mostly.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that if they don't/can't get abortions, this info will be kept from the kid. And it's gonna scar the mom forever.

I wonder if they can sue? Boy, I'd sure like to see it happen.

It's like a Christian posing as a Muslim or a Jew and impregnating a mother, in an attempt to further his own hateful brand of religion.

[equinas.livejournal.com]

So abortion's the answer? Most uncool.

I keep saying that the gay community should be more anti-abortion than the most right-wing conservatives out there.

Because who do you think are going to be the first ones aborted when they find the gay gene?

[snousle.livejournal.com]

I don't think a first-trimester fetus has any more inherent moral value than a chicken. That's not to say it isn't a crime to kill a chicken; jury's still out on that. But in the meanwhile we err on the side of individual judgment.

We don't really know the details of the story so I'm launching into a hypothetical, but a non-anonymous sperm donation made while concealing major, relevant aspects of the father's life - such as his existing marriage, and his record anti-gay political action - is really quite disgusting and if I were such a woman this would be a 100x larger issue for me. Maybe there's a sociopath gene, too, and he's spreading it. Not something I would want to have any part in. FWIW the situation would not be changed if he were simply a philanderer, the artificial insemination angle just makes it more lurid.

There are lots of permutations but the key issue would be deliberate deceit on the part of the father. I don't think revenge is good motivation for abortion but it would still be a fitting end for his vile scheme.

The gay-gene thing might indeed come to pass and might be as big a problem as sex-selective abortion. But neither of these are nearly as big a an issue, IMHO, as the autonomy of women and their right to control their own bodies.

I doubt I have anything to say on the issue you haven't heard a hundred times before. For obvious reasons it's not a major issue in my life but my values lead to a fairly strong conclusion nonetheless.