A 61 year-old woman…has given birth to her own grandson.
Kristine Casey acted as a surrogate for daughter Sara Connell after she was unable to have children of her own. Mrs Connell and her husband Bill are the biological parents of the boy, who is called Finnean.
The 35 year-old lecturer sat holding her mother’s hand as she delivered the baby boy at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She said her mother, who gave birth to her last child almost 30 years ago, had offered to act as a surrogate when she suffered years of heartache trying to conceive…
She said when she heard her son cry for the first time after the caesarean section delivery she could not hold back the emotion.
Mrs Casey, a mother-of-three, said she was grateful to be able to help her daughter.
“The three of the happiest days of my life were giving birth to my daughters,’ and I thought I could choose to do this for someone I love,” she said.
Bound to be a hundred preachers, politicians and pundits who will spend the next week NOT approving of this. Meanwhile, a couple of families are made happier by the event.
Classy, Eideard, assuming that preachers would be first in line to condemn a selfless act of love, and the respect for new life. I’m pretty jaded on the whole church thing, but if there is one demographic left in the country that still *really* loves babies, it’s Christians. (And you can keep your snide remarks about child-molesting priests to yourself, please, I think we’ve heard them all)
I’m thinking grandma probably isn’t interested in doing it 18 more times, however
The liberal media will be sure to spin this one as a great triumph for Obamacare and eugenics, just as you have, Eideard. Another touching story for you and your liberal social-control freak friends!
The fact is, this country is going to pay a heavy price for doing what is completely unnatural, from the obscenity of man-on-man love to the elevation of certain races and ethnicities above others, namely the one that founded this country.
Soon it will be permissible for the husband to sleep with the mother-in-law in order to produce the child. Or maybe this step will be *government-mandated* by one of your darling Obama’s birth panels. How much taxpayer money was wasted on this illegitimate couple’s desire to conceive? I wonder.
A civilized society would have seen the couple accept their infertility as their God-given fate. Not everyone is meant to have children. But liberal, Godless collectivists continue to sow the whirlwind. Watch what they reap.
There have been some small, legitimate advances in genetic engineering, most notably those modest efforts of companies like Monsanto, which come simply and straightforwardly out of a solemn duty to shareholders. But I pose the question: who elected this couple to be the first to conceive in this disgusting menage-a-trois? Who decided our tax dollars should be spent on an immoral doomed offspring, stained forever as he is by his parents’ indiscretions?
And you liberals claim to believe in “freedom”!
@ #2:
I don’t know where you have been but they have been using surrogate mothers now for a while. This is no ‘breakthrough’ as you put it.
I should also bring up that using your religious logic that it is not your place to judge these people. I’m pretty sure from what I’ve read in scripture that right is reserved for the most high. You are out of place sir.
Poster #1: read Post # 2. That is the right wing christian view.
Poster #2: Who the Fu** made you god? If couple needs to use a segregate to have a baby it is none of your business.
Alfie: What the family “reaped” was a healthy new child, not something “unnatural.” You’re supposedly pro-life, you should be happy for the mother, grandmother, and child, and shouldn’t get all weird about it.
Predictable Xhristians.
Read about the Sin of IVF…from True Christians:
http://faithfulwordbaptist.org/page13.html
I’m sure Alfred lives his life as god intended, living naturally, collecting berries, sleeping in a cave, wondering when god see fit to let a lion eat him, free from the distractions of modern medicine, or television, or computers or the internet.
A simple, natural life.
I’m Mine Own Grandpa
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
Congratulations to the happy couple. I’m gonna celebrate with some man on man love tonight.
#2 SemiPerson
Alfie, Alfie, Alfie. You’ve gone right over the edge. How do you come up with this being a case of eugenics? Oh, you probably threw your dictionary away because you heard Webster had dealings with the devil. (The Devil and Daniel Webster – a story by Benét) Eugeneics is trying to improve the gene pool. This was just a man and wife trying to have a baby. And a triumph for Obamacare? This wasn’t done with funding by the Feds. In fact, their own insurance probably didn’t pay for it, either. Certainly not our tax dollars. Actually, it’s quite possible the granny may have lost coverage due to this procedure.
You see, 61 year-old women are not supposed to be having babies. They will have pumped her full of hormones to make her body receptive to the procedure. As a doc, I’m not sure I like that idea but I’ll bet they went through extensive counseling and signed a dozen different waivers. So she knew the risks she was taking.
Obamacare BIRTH panels? You’ve been hitting the joy juice, again, haven’t you?
“A civilized society would have seen the couple accept their infertility as their God-given fate”
What could you possibly know of civilization? A truly civilized society would have had you committed ages ago. If this couple had even one child on their own, I would condemn this procedure. But apparently there are none. I would have counseled them to adopt but it’s a biological imperative for couples to reproduce. This couple has undoubtedly invested tens of thousands of dollars in this outcome and that indicates they will be loving and nurturing parents. A civilized society would have done exactly what it did: Allow these parents to have a child.
Alfie, you are the best argument I can think of in favor of abortion. Maybe Obamacare’s Death Panels will authorize retroactive abortions. I’ll submit your name for you.
#8 He’s not his own Grandpa… but he IS his own Nephew and Uncle at the same time.
#10–Animby==thanks. I was wondering how a dried up and worn out uterus could be recalled to service. How do you make a hormone? Don’t pay her.
Yes, Alfie and I will be here all week providing our differing and unique brands of humor.
Alfie: wrong in every thing he says in his throwback to the Inquisition as the only Moral Model with the New Devil being Progressives.
Moi: being equally offensive by being correct, cutting edge, and pragmatic in all things.
Might make one slow down
and think for just a bit, or
just go and submit.
Well, I’m not the least bit religious and I think this is disgusting.
If mother nature makes you infertile, there’s a reason for it. If you can’t have your own kid and really, really, want one, there are plenty of orphans out there. Pick one up.
We have more than enough people already, and no trouble making more. We should be using science more towards Soylent Green than this kind of thing.
But, all that said, I have no distain for the child and wish it a happy, healthy long life, to the extent it can have one with an insane mother, grandmother and apparently, father.
Gilf is the new Milf.
I’m a preacher… and I approve. Sorry to burst your bubble Eideard.
IN THE NEWS: reported that men by 5-10 % margin want kiddies more than women do. When did THAT happen? Just projecting my own attitude on the issue: I don’t believe it.
Men love Women.
Women want kiddies.
Men go along with it.
So, #13–spsffan==I agree with the “sentiment” of your post but on reflection: its not “insane” for women to want kiddies–I see that all the time. And really, how bad can it be for the kiddie that his parents/grandparents really wanted him, or at least went along with it?
Love dem kiddies.
Taking this from another angle, it is expensive “premium” medical procedures like (which the U.S. is the #1 consumer of) that that makes our healthcare system the most costly in the world.
#14 – If mother nature makes you infertile, there’s a reason for it.
And if mother nature gives you cancer, or chooses for you to fall over in the street and break your leg?
“And if mother nature gives you cancer, ”
Then you are sick and seek a cure. Infertility is not sickness.
or chooses for you to fall over in the street and break your leg?”
Mother nature doesn’t do that. You do, you clumsy oaf!