I’m sorry. I don’t want to sound cruel (well, more than usual, I mean), or to diminish the suffering of those who have great difficulty conceiving children. But golly, articles like this one bug me big time. Children are persons, not things we choose to have rights over.
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Tanya’s got nothing but questions here: How can a government decide to cover abortions but not cover IVF? It’s contradictory in the most obvious sense of the word. Is there reproductive choice, or isn’t there?
If a woman is infertile sometime between puberty and menopause, for whatever reason, she is suffering from an actual physical ailment. If a woman becomes pregnant through natural means, it’s an indication of her reproductive health. So, here in Canada, our health care system might treat the healthy one, but leave the unhealthy one to fend for herself? Really? Genius.
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“Quebec’s pro-family political culture”? Are they serious?!
The only reason we permit just anyone to have children right now is that is now nature works. The reproductive organs activate, and from that point on (Baring medical problems) anyone can reproduce. It doesn’t matter if the parents happen to be living on the poverty line and have more criminal convictions than educational qualifications. This is not a sensible system. It’s just impractical to fight biology.
Oh, and I think ‘pro-family’ is a political codeword that’s been used, abused, counter-used, repurposed and stolen so many times now, noone really knows what it’s supposed to mean any more. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who isn’t pro-family, even if they arn’t all pro- the same idea of what family should mean.
By saying “The only reason we permit just anyone to have children right now is that is how nature works…It’s just impractical to fight biology” are you suggesting that once it becomes practical, the ability to become pregnant should be regulated/controlled by government?
That would basically be a proposal for some form of forced sterilization, something which is very possible and has been conducted in many countries. It is now considered a crime against humanity. It is only impractical in that it elicits moral outrage.