With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

A recent story in the Washington Post came with this headline, quote,

America has a black sperm donor shortage.

There's so much wrong with that headline, it's hard to know where to begin.

Assumed here is a commodification of people, echoing the repulsive slave markets of America's past,

except that today's demand

is for babies that are made, bought, and sold.

The word shortage implies that we're talking about just stuff, like steel, or grain, or labor.

Beneath all of this is a worldview that sees reproduction is primarily production.

Missing is not only the word, but the framework that comes with seeing the making of human lives as procreation,

or as the word implies that human life is created, not produced.

In the end, through the various industries of artificial reproductive technologies,

kids are being robbed of one of their most fundamental rights, the right to be raised by their own mother and father.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.