Friday, December 28, 2007 at 1:01am
Baby born with 2 moms, 2 dads
The Los Angeles Times reported the birth of a baby born with essentially two mothers and two fathers. With the help of a fertility clinic, gay couple Chad and David Craig of Atlanta had their sperm mixed so they would not know who the father was, fertlized a donor's egg and then implanted it into a surrogate mother. The baby boy, O. Jansen Hodge Craig, has a biological mother, birth mother and two fathers, one of them being the biological father, Baptist Press reported Friday.
They had been trying for four years to have a baby, and as the Times reported, "went through three egg retrievals, 65 eggs, seven fertilization attempts, three surrogates and more than $200,000 in expenses." The birth mother, who lives in Massachusetts, even pumps and freezes her breast milk and ships it to Atlanta weekly.
One of the men said of taking care of the baby, "[W]e're just going through what all parents go through."
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council disagrees. "[T]hey have gone to such great lengths to ensure that this child will not 'go through' the experience that most children enjoy of being raised by both a mother and a father," Perkins wrote in his daily e-mail. "It is outrageous that courts in some states have become complicit in this denial of biological reality by allowing homosexual couples to have custody of newborns and birth certificates that mislead about the true parentage of the child."
They had been trying for four years to have a baby, and as the Times reported, "went through three egg retrievals, 65 eggs, seven fertilization attempts, three surrogates and more than $200,000 in expenses." The birth mother, who lives in Massachusetts, even pumps and freezes her breast milk and ships it to Atlanta weekly.
One of the men said of taking care of the baby, "[W]e're just going through what all parents go through."
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council disagrees. "[T]hey have gone to such great lengths to ensure that this child will not 'go through' the experience that most children enjoy of being raised by both a mother and a father," Perkins wrote in his daily e-mail. "It is outrageous that courts in some states have become complicit in this denial of biological reality by allowing homosexual couples to have custody of newborns and birth certificates that mislead about the true parentage of the child."