Babies for parts

[blue]

If and only if they had that kid as spare parts and didn't love and cherish that child as all children deserve to be loved then the parents would be selfish and shouldn't have EITHER child. However, we don't know what goes on behind the media glamor screen so we are in no place to judge. I hope the second child is loved just as much as the first, and that the first is loved just as much as the second. You never truely know what motivates people any more.

Exactly.

If the second child is produced only to save the first and then be discarded or treated as second class or loved anything other then unconditionally child, I would view it as unethical.

As long as both children come away healthy and loved, I have no problem with this practice.

We are not talking about cloning for parts harvesting.

[pomtzu]

We are not talking about cloning for parts harvesting.

Not yet anyway.........


And honestly, I'd rather be here knowing that I "just happened naturally" (the way it used to be most of the time) - not planned or not a mistake or an oops. But in this day and age and the way the world has changed, planned is a matter of practicality and necessity in most instances. I just think what was done by producing this child, is very much a grey area

[Cataholic]

I am not sure I anayzed this decision when I first heard of it. Now? Having J in my life? I would do probably just about anything to keep him alive and healthy.

Many people have more than one child solely to keep the other child from being an only child. Not sure I see such a big difference. As long as the child is loved and well cared for, it's 'reason' for being doesn't have to be its 'purpose' for being.

[pomtzu]

Well fortunately there was a match, and both girls credit each other for being here on earth, so this one did have a happy ending (or beginning).
I can't help but wonder what the parents would have done if there hadn't been a match-------try-try again???
Grace - thanks for the link - I couldn't find it.

[Twisterdog]

I can't help but wonder what the parents would have done if there hadn't been a match-------try-try again???

Perhaps they would have. So? If they love all their children and can care for them, what difference does it make, and what business of ours?

Lots of people "try, try again" for a girl, if they have only boys. Or vice versa. My cousin had four boys, hoping for a girl. She loves all her sons dearly. I doubt any of the children feel that they were unwanted or exist for the sole reason of getting a child of the opposite sex.

[pomtzu]

Perhaps they would have. So? what difference does it make, and what business of ours?

None of my business at all - and I wasn't looking to start an argument.

As I stated previously - this is a gray area at best. IMHO!!

[Twisterdog]

None of my business at all - and I wasn't looking to start an argument.

As I stated previously - this is a gray area at best. IMHO!!

I wasn't arguing .... just stating MHO.

[Cataholic]

My cousin had four boys, hoping for a girl. She loves all her sons dearly. I doubt any of the children feel that they were unwanted or exist for the sole reason of getting a child of the opposite sex.

HAH! My SIL's sister has five boys. LOL....they stopped trying.

[Grace]

HAH! My SIL's sister has five boys. LOL....they stopped trying.

A friend of mine growing up was one of SIX girls. 'Course back then there was no birth control and they were Catholic. And the dad didn't know that as a man gets older he is more likely to have a daughter. Something about those X chromosomes being stronger and faster

Your SIL's sister should have kept trying . . . . . .

[Karen]

HAH! My SIL's sister has five boys. LOL....they stopped trying.

My dear friend at church is due mid-March to have a baby girl. She's already got two little (but growing) boys, and various people have told her "Well, now you have to have another girl, so it'll be even numbers!" After I sympathized with her a bit - she's a very petite person, so is uncomfortably large at this point - we agreed the next time someone says that, she should just ask them "Tell you what, which one of the boys do you want to take? Then we'll be 'even!'"