How will Catholic SIL Respond?

[hasikelee]

One more issue… if the embryos are going to be adopted out to other infertile couples… then how do you know, twenty years down the road, that your child isn’t going to meet and perhaps want to marry his or her own sibling???

I don’t mean to make a Lifetime movie out of this, but surely this is a possibility???

It’s not a possibility, it is a factual incident. Courts are beginning to face a slew of new issues. Multiple parents claiming children, half-siblings, anonymous donors forced to pay child support, etc.

There’s documentation of siblings finding each other and marrying, of donors finding their born children and demanding visitation rights, of anonymous donors being found my single mothers or orphaned children and being forced to support them, etc.

This is a bigger issue than wanting a precious wittle baby. We are messing around with the law, with our society, with our genetics, with birth defects, with human rights and more.

 

[surfinpure]

It’s not a possibility, it is a factual incident. Courts are beginning to face a slew of new issues. Multiple parents claiming children, half-siblings, anonymous donors forced to pay child support, etc.

There’s documentation of siblings finding each other and marrying, of donors finding their born children and demanding visitation rights, of anonymous donors being found my single mothers or orphaned children and being forced to support them, etc.

This is a bigger issue than wanting a precious wittle baby. We are messing around with the law, with our society, with our genetics, with birth defects, with human rights and more.

A very sobering thought! I had never even considered these ramifications. I can only imagine the horror of the parents who find out their adopted “embryo” baby’s mother has hunted them down to claim rights to the child. Are there new laws being written to cover this eventuality, I wonder?

 

[bluerose]

Exactly. My son is adopted, but we at least know his birth parents’ names. And while he is too young to worry about possible repercussions with the opposite sex yet, he already knows he has at least two half-brothers on his mother’s side. His birth father hasn’t been heard from in ten years, so who knows how many other half-siblings he has? He knows that someday, he will have to delve deeply into the parentage of potential spouses. But at least he has a name to guide him. What do the parents of or children born of adopted or donated embryos or sperm have to guide them?

 

[hasikelee]

A very sobering thought! I had never even considered these ramifications. I can only imagine the horror of the parents who find out their adopted “embryo” baby’s mother has hunted them down to claim rights to the child. Are there new laws being written to cover this eventuality, I wonder?

My honest answer is I have no idea if there is any legislation regarding these issues. I can say there are definitely courts in America and other countries quietly setting precedent on a variety of issues tied to the disadvantages of IVF.

Unfortunately, other than a few positive spin stories in my local media, I have not seen any major media convey these big issues being decided by courts.