According to a front page headline in this weekend's Daily Mail, there is shock and outrage as the NHS has decided to fund sperm banks for lesbians that will be paid for by you the tax payer (emphasis on you by the Daily Mail).
The mail has got interesting quotes from a variety of critics of the scheme, all of which more or less say "children should not be brought into the world without a father".
Of course the vast majority of us know people who didn't grow up with a father and they turned out just fine but it is apparently sick and wrong and outrageous and sick and wrong according to the paper.
The would be parents can select the attributes of their sperm donor, such as height, hair colour and even hobbies. Some have likened this to eugenics however this process has been in practice for some time in other parts of the world and has never been raised as an issue. Is this not what straight women do when they select their partner in the first place?
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has said that "designer babies are a disaster for society". I'm not going to write out his entire opinion piece and I will absolutely not link to the Daily Mail website (google it if you must) but he did say the following:
"The result of 'father hunger' can be seen in educational achievement and on our streets where it contributes to delinquency".
So, and I apologise if I am misunderstanding this, children without fathers (and therefore children of lesbian couples and single mothers) grow up stupid and end up being criminals. Though I may be reading into it too much.
So lets be outraged at the thought that children may grow up with either only one, or two same sex loving parents.
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