Reengineering the family: Severing biology from parenthood

Heather Mac Donald writing at National Review: “Every time a homosexual couple conceives a child, there is another parent offstage somewhere whose sperm or egg has allowed conception to occur (and, in the case of male homosexuals, whose womb has allowed gestation to occur) . . . Parental identity and responsibility for children in a homosexual family do not flow from biology, they result from choice and intent . . . These features of homosexual families also characterize infertile heterosexual couples who have used someone else’s gametes to conceive. Indeed, the medical revolution that allows gays to procreate was driven by heterosexual demand . . . The institutionalized severing of biology from parenthood affirms a growing trend in our society, that of men abandoning their biological children. Too many men now act like sperm donors: they conceive a child then largely disappear, becoming at best an intermittent presence in their child’s life.”