The following coms from a March 6 Washington Post article by Danielle Paquette. Full story here.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too long to freeze her eggs. The patient radiated health, he says, but age had damaged her pregnancy chances.
“It’s not something you can fix with a diet or with acupuncture or with Pilates.”
About 100 guests sit before him in the Beverly Wilshire’s Champagne Room, sipping bubbly and jotting notes at this “Egg Freezing Party” hosted by the marketing start-up EggBanxx. The company rents swanky hotel spaces across the country to pitch women on a fertility treatment once available only to young cancer patients.
As more women delay parenthood, a growing number are turning to egg freezing, a procedure deemed experimental until 2012, as a way to pause the biological clock. But some doctors and medical ethicists are troubled by the marketing of egg freezing and the use of it as a hedge against aging.
Demand for the treatment skyrocketed last year, fertility specialists say, after Facebook and Apple offered to cover a portion of its cost as a benefit for employees. The procedure’s popularity and low odds of success have heightened tension between marketers and some doctors: What is responsible advertising — and what is fear mongering?
A guest in black yoga spandex wipes away tears. Her EggBanxx pamphlet lists the estimated decline of her childbearing ability, the root of her anxiety: Her current chance of conception is 10 percent, it says. The number drops to 8 percent on her 40th birthday. Five percent on her 44th.
Nicole Diez, 38, broke up 18 months ago with her last serious boyfriend. Two empty champagne flutes sit beneath her gold-lacquered chair. She tucked away $30,000 over decades for a house. She wonders if the money should fund her last chance for children.
EggBanxx, which launched last spring in New York, is an early firm attempting to broaden the appeal of egg freezing. It is not a medical provider but a middleman between patients and doctors for reproductive treatments, offering “discount” packages and low-interest loans for services that can start at $7,000 and reach $30,000.
EggBanxx parties, dubbed “Let’s Chill,” are scheduled this year in New York and Boston, with more cities to be announced. Last month’s Los Angeles event was booked at twice its capacity, Bartasi said.
Diez, a nurse from nearby Santa Monica, has always wanted children: A girl or a boy or both — it doesn’t matter. She would teach them to cherish the Catholic faith. She would take them to Paris, her dream vacation.
“If I have the power to do something like this, like egg freezing, I should do it,” Diez says. “Or else I could regret it for the rest of my life.”
Tonight’s stories and statistics compelled her decision: She will spend her house savings on egg freezing.
CCC: ” 2376 Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral.
These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child’s right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage.
They betray the spouses right to become a father and a mother only through each other.”
CCC: ” 2377 Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable.
They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act.
The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person.
Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children.”
Under the moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses’ union . . . . Only respect for the link between the meanings of the conjugal act and respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation in conformity with the dignity of the person. “
I know that the people in the article are not Catholic, but if they would have paid attention to the Catholic Faith instead of their own greed, they would have families before age 38.
If nurse Diez would teach children to cherish the Catholic faith – then she would not consider violating the Faith – but adopt a child instead.
People have to learn that there are consequences for their own actions or inactions. And they have to take full responsibility.
I do not feel sorry for anyone in the article.
Their own greed took precedence over what is important in life.
And since they will be too OLD, are they planning for a surrogate mother?
What are they going to do with these harvested eggs?
These are immoral and mortal sins.
The evil, corrupt, “post-modern,” ” post-1960’s” world, full of radical, sick, immoral fads like pre-marital sex, feminism, and endless, worthless self-gratifications— has robbed women tragically, of their natural, feminine instincts, and of their natural role, as a beautiful, loving, devoted wife and mother, in the home! Science cannot magically solve life’s problems, especially in an immoral way! Egg-freezing should be totally ILLEGAL!! We must drop to our knees, ASK GOD’S WILL for our lives, and follow it! That is the only way, that we will find true happiness! Marriage is a very serious lifelong vow, before God! It is a holy Sacrament, in our Church! Child-bearing is a part of your Marriage vows! If a couple is unable to bear children– pray to adopt a child in need! Go to your parish priest, and ask him to help guide you and your husband, to possible adoption of a needy child– if this is God’s Will!! And for those who are unmarried, and getting too old to have children?? Accept your situation, unselfishly— and think of volunteering, to give your love, to children in need!
Turkey Baster Creationist Misandry – the Separatist / Neo-Exterminationist Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality – gets no mention in this article about procreation…
– despite the fact that All Procreation is Heterosexual (XX & XY) and every Child has a Mother & Father.
In California – the Twysted Sisterhood of the Gaystapo have literally eliminated Fatherhood – and a Boy’s Birth Certificate can list Two Dykes & No Daddy – though scientifically impossible
This is not about ‘love’ – but the rabid frothing hind foot thumping Hatred of Men of the Radical Gender Feminist party line.
The main reason for their alliance with Homo-Anal Coprophiles is that “by their shimmering flaming example they un-Man themselves and thus render themselves Relatively Inoffensive”
We are past the point where Radical Gender Feminists are even willing to ‘marry the enemy pigs’ – and instead shop on line for Dead Beat Dad Factories to provide anonymous genderless ‘donor material’ – from Men with No Responsibility for their offspring, provided they Avoid Heterosexual Relationships.
Indeed – A Man can be jailed for failure to pay for children he Fathered via Heterosexual Acts, but has no responsibility for their siblings if a Turkey Baster was used.
Consider – Two Brothers, one has a Male Father and the other a ‘donor’ but No Father – though offspring of the Same Man.
SEE
Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters
by Helen Smith
Turkey Baster Incest – the new frontier of ‘tolerance’.
The Boy in the story has a Mother (XX) and it is not the mother of the homo-anal coprophile ‘turkey baster daddy’ – who claims he ‘can’t go sex’ with a Woman, but can with a plastic instrument.
Remember – anyone who fails to be ‘tolerant’ of this – is a candidate for Jail Time for Thought Crime, also a form of the new ‘tolerance’.
Mother Gives Birth to (homo-anal coprophile) Son’s Child
(CNSNews.com) – The U.K. Daily Mail reported last week that a 46-year-old woman acted as a surrogate so that her homosexual son could have a child. Her son’s sperm was used to fertilize an egg from a donor, which was then implanted into – his mother after his plans to use another surrogate fell through…
“I was born being unable to have kids,” Casson told the Mail. “I can’t just go sex with a woman.”
The report states that Casson isn’t concerned about the ethics or morality of his actions.
– under British law Casson’s son is legally also his brother.
British law requires that only a couple can apply for a parental order..
But Kyle Casson, who was adopted by his stepfather after Anne-Marie divorced his biological father, was able to legally adopt his son, according to the Mail.
There is an excellent book out by William B. May., called Getting the Marriage Conversation Right. by Emmaus Press in Steubenville, Ohio, for around $5.95. You should be able to find it at your local Catholic bookstore or on line. William B. May is president of Catholics for the Common Good. Be careful and make sure it is the right book as there is another organization with a similar title that claims to be Catholic but is against Catholic teaching. I recommending buying the book, reading it and giving and buying the book to and for others.
What a waste of a life. An egg bank party? In the “Champagne Room” at the Beverly Wilshire (nice place to stay, though)? Is “Pretty Woman” there? Glad the important issues are being discussed and planned for.
These pagan women are simply lost. Yet, how many Catholic clergy would gladly (and possibly already do) give them counsel and a “blessing”. After all, these women are seeking “life” and didn’t Francis just say that priests need to “smell the people” and live on the streets, something like that? Perhaps Cardinal Marx would approve, and he likely would, if it got them to pay their German Tax.
This picture suggests a true horror movie, and, given Hollywood, perhaps it soon will be (and it could star various Homosexuals and lesbians, who “just can’t do sex” with each other but wish “life” in their lives; you know, a little trophy baby that they can pervert).
“Rachel weeping for her children for they were not.” I cannot help but wonder how may of these women had abortions.
Why not an adoption party? Why not show these desperate women how many desperate children are out there in search of parents?
“Why not an adoption party? Why not show these desperate women how many desperate children are out there in search of parents?” One Of…
I have wondered this myself, and yet ‘new technologies’ involving Mitochondrial DNA provide some interesting questions, and warnings.
Does the Egg Freezing versus Adoption have something to do with the Woman’s desire (known or subconscious) to pass along Her Mitochondrial DNA as well as the rest of her genes?
Women who have Sons do not pass Mitochondrial, only Daughters – which may play a role in the push for Sex Selective Abortion amongst leaders of the Twysted Sisterhood, also known as ‘offing the pigs’ while tiny.
In her book “Lesbians Raising Sons” author Jess Wells openly discussed techniques to avoid Male Babies – and the Harsh Consequences amongst them for Womyn who bring “little rapists” in to this world
SEE
Is it safe to create a baby from the DNA of 3 parents?
https://www.dailynews.com/health/20140226/is-it-safe-to-create-a-baby-from-the-dna-of-3-parents
Unlike most DNA — located in the nucleus of the cell — mitochondrial DNA is only passed along by the mother, not the father.
Houda Thunk It – and my oh my isn’t ‘Sir Elton’ – John in a huge tizzy fit about it:
“- founders of the eponymous fashion house, have come out strongly against gay marriage, the notion of gay families, and the use of surrogacy to procreate.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/14/legendary-gay-designers-oppose-gay-marriage-gay-parenting-surrogacy/
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana… The billionaire pair, who used to be romantically linked, gave an interview with the Italian magazine Panorama, in which they said,
“The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offspring and rented uterus. Life has a natural flow; there are things that cannot be changed.”
They also said, “Procreation must be an act of love.”