Disappointed Consumers Sue Fertility Clinic
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
A gay couple is suing a fertility business in California because they had a daughter instead of a son. The lawsuit is full of loaded terms we shouldn't miss. Gay couples "must" pay surrogate mothers if they want to have kids, the suit says. The men paid the clinic to create "their" embryos and to implant only male embryos into "their" gestational carrier.
Must two men, who've chosen a biologically sterile union, demand children at will? Who exactly owns a young embryo or a gestational carrier—which is another word for mother?
At the end of the day, this distasteful story isn't a bug of assisted reproduction: It's a feature. Treating women and children as objects is the enterprise. If we are uncomfortable when someone is more upfront about that—like a couple who files a lawsuit because they didn't receive what they had ordered and paid for—maybe we should reconsider turning procreation into a manufacturing business.
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| 0:00.0 | Babies should not be for sale. |
| 0:02.5 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point. |
| 0:05.0 | A gay couple is suing a fertility business in California because they had a daughter instead of a son. |
| 0:10.0 | This lawsuit is full of loaded terms that we should not miss. |
| 0:13.0 | Gay couples, quote, must pay surrogate mothers if they want to have kids, says the suit. |
| 0:18.0 | The men paid the clinic to create their embryos and to implant only male embryos into their |
| 0:23.3 | gestational carrier. |
| 0:25.4 | Must two men who've chosen a biologically sterile union demand children who exactly owns |
| 0:30.6 | a young embryo or a gestational carrier, which is just another word for mother. |
| 0:35.6 | Look, at the end of the day, this distasteful story is not a bug of |
| 0:39.2 | assisted reproduction. It's a feature. Treating women and children as objects is the enterprise. |
| 0:44.7 | If we're uncomfortable when someone is more upfront about it, like a couple who files a lawsuit |
| 0:48.8 | because they didn't receive what they had ordered and paid for, well, maybe we should reconsider turning procreation |
| 0:55.4 | into a manufacturing business. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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