Is just one of the labels/names we hear when we, as adoptees, attempt to reform and change the way adoption operates. It still shocks me that anyone could believe having your biology and genetics taken from you and held hostage by government and religious entities is alright and could actually be approached with such a nonchalant attitude. Adoption, sperm and egg donation, and IVF is in fact a booming business, and not the altruistic operation it is usually perceived to be.
It can cost tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a newborn infant. Nonprofit agencies that facilitate these adoptions bring in millions of dollars each year and the BOD incomes from these can range upwards of six figures. Egg donors are paid a high price for their donations. In Vitro fertilization techniques leave unused embryos in freezers to languish when no longer needed and or given away as donations to other infertile couples. Anonymous sperm donor banks are supposed to put limits on the amount of children conceived and born this way and yet sperm donor registries dictate otherwise. All of this is a much unregulated industry, an industry out of control.
I shake my head in disbelief that we play God with life and lives every day, and refuse to look at how we got there. Are we really going to continue to justify the means to the end when we are dealing with manipulating gametes that become embryos and human beings? And then turn our backs to the repercussions and ramifications these actions dictate permanently into the lives of adoptees, sperm, and egg donor children? How is it people can expect adoptees to feel grateful when we are treated like commodities and interchangeable parts? And when we as adoptees stand up for our rights and the rights of future children brought into this world by whatever means available, and usually most affordable, we are met with harsh judgment and cruel ridicule?
Money, profit, and power have obviously become more important in creating a family than ethics.
And we are the selfish ones? I think not.
It can cost tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a newborn infant. Nonprofit agencies that facilitate these adoptions bring in millions of dollars each year and the BOD incomes from these can range upwards of six figures. Egg donors are paid a high price for their donations. In Vitro fertilization techniques leave unused embryos in freezers to languish when no longer needed and or given away as donations to other infertile couples. Anonymous sperm donor banks are supposed to put limits on the amount of children conceived and born this way and yet sperm donor registries dictate otherwise. All of this is a much unregulated industry, an industry out of control.
I shake my head in disbelief that we play God with life and lives every day, and refuse to look at how we got there. Are we really going to continue to justify the means to the end when we are dealing with manipulating gametes that become embryos and human beings? And then turn our backs to the repercussions and ramifications these actions dictate permanently into the lives of adoptees, sperm, and egg donor children? How is it people can expect adoptees to feel grateful when we are treated like commodities and interchangeable parts? And when we as adoptees stand up for our rights and the rights of future children brought into this world by whatever means available, and usually most affordable, we are met with harsh judgment and cruel ridicule?
Money, profit, and power have obviously become more important in creating a family than ethics.
And we are the selfish ones? I think not.
Of course where money is to be made greed becomes far more important than ethics.
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