There's a healthy debate going on over at The New York Times about "Making Laws About Making Babies." Many people have opinions about this after an outrageous example of Reproductive Technology Gone Wild was reported last week: one sperm donor produced 150 kids.
Beth Littrell, a staff attorney for Lambda Legal, wrote about bias against gays and lesbians regarding fertility services. [Me: Of course there shouldn't be any bias against anyone seeking fertility services-- if they can pay for it, they can buy it-- and sperm and egg donors are presumably healthy individuals or they shouldn't be permitted to donate anything of theirs-- except money, of course.] Ms. Littrell states: "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people wish to have children and form families for all the same reasons that heterosexual people do." I have no reason to doubt that statement, but I hope they don't want to start families for all the same reasons heterosexuals do because some heterosexuals have children for the wrong reasons. It's the word "all" that's troublesome.
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