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Breakpoint

Anonymous Fatherhood

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Reproductive technology that separates father from child has consequences

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0:00.0

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

0:04.5

Years ago, Dylan Stone Miller donated sperm to subsidize his college tuition.

0:09.0

More recently, he discovered he's the father of at least 97 children.

0:13.0

Twelve years after donating, he was contacted by a parent who conceived with his sperm.

0:17.0

Stone Miller was emotionally overwhelmed to learn about this child he did not know. So he's searching now for all of his children and asking their families if he can be part of their lives.

0:24.6

The story underscores how we employ reproductive technologies while never considering the rights and well-being of children.

0:31.6

Dramatic advances in medical technologies have long outpaced our ethics, moving forward based on what we can do

0:38.2

without considering what we should do. This has dangerous consequences. Anonymous sperm donation

0:43.7

has particular consequences for children who are abandoned by their biological dads, often

0:48.7

grow up with incomplete medical records, and might even unknowingly encounter biological half-siblings.

0:54.6

We rightly condemn anonymous fathering in any other circumstance.

0:58.8

Adult desires don't justify it in this one.

1:01.6

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

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