MOTHERLESS CHILD: Elizabeth Marquardt

It's funny, I feel a lot more comfortable banning surrogacy than I do banning sperm donation. Maybe because I find it incomprehensible that a woman could intentionally bear a baby and carry it in her body for nine months in order to sell it to somebody else. While sperm donation sadly mimics the all too common practice, throughout history and now, of a man depositing his sperm and moving on. I feel worse about saying that a woman who wants to carry and love a baby shouldn't have access to clean, safe sperm in a clinic. I understand and feel sympathy for her motivations. I feel as disgusted by the sperm donor as I do by any man who fathers children he doesn't care about. I question the mental health of surrogate mothers. And I question the goodness of men who would intentionally conceive children who they plan to keep forever from their mothers.

Put it this way: For a long time, everybody knew that mothers were important, it was just the importance of fathers that was up for grabs. Sadly, a lot of us, even me, have become somewhat used to the fact that it's quite common for children to grow up without their fathers. Now, though, we're sitting here debating whether mothers are important. That breaks my heart.

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