They ordered a MALE embryo dammit!
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A gay couple are suing a California fertility clinic after they requested a male embryo but ended up having a baby girl.
Well they didn’t “have” a baby girl did they. Having a baby=giving birth. They didn’t do that; someone else did it for them. They paid a woman to gestate the baby and push it out.
According to CBSNews, Albert and Anthony Saniger were determined to be fathers to two sons. Before the couple wed in 2013 they had already chosen the names of their future kids and even created Gmail accounts for them.
The HRC Fertility clinic and fertility specialist Dr Bradford A Kolb reportedly assured the couple that they could make this happen. The couple were explicitly clear that they wanted a male embryo implanted in their surrogate.
Not just implicitly clear, mind you: explicitly clear.
Also “implanted in their surrogate” is a peculiarly ugly phrase.
In May 2020, the couple provided their sperm, and after two unsuccessful attempts their surrogate became pregnant in December. She gave birth to a baby girl in 2021.
The couple’s lawsuit claims that the fertility clinic “negligently, recklessly, and/or intentionally transferred a female embryo to the Sanigers’ gestational carrier.”
More ugly language: “their surrogate,” “the Sanigers’ gestational carrier.” Pink News talks about this woman as if she were an appliance.
At any rate, as many people are pointing out, the guys could just assign the baby male: problem solved.
You mean we’re not? Well, I was always taught my purpose was to make babies! (I was taught that; it didn’t take well. I did have one baby, but that was more than enough. It wasn’t the pain of childbirth, it was the pain of overpopulation).
That poor little girl.
There’s lots to be organised when you’re expecting a baby. Creating Gmail accounts strikes me as one of the less essential tasks.
The use of abortion for sex-selection is probably the strongest argument for regulating the practice. India has (supposedly) banned sonograms to cull female fetuses, but it still goes on. With demographic catastrophe to follow.
The narcissism and entitlement are just staggering. No one told these guys that it’s the sperm that determines whether the embryo is XX or XY. It’s their own damn fault, the sperm donors. That girl should be taken away … she’s not their property. She deserves a family that wants her. Maybe the son should be taken away, too. These yo-hos want designer offspring; they don’t really want children, i.e., real human beings. They want mini-me’s.