Amen!

I wanted to save this post by Suruj for the Blog Mela, but it was too good for me to pass up linking to it. Combine his words with this post of mine and this post of Joanne Jacobs and there are some really disturbing trends that seem to be at play here.

“Men - the most useless of Nature’s creatures”, declared Uma Thurman - a.k.a Poison Ivy - disdainfully, in Batman and Robin. Suzi Leather, head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Agency (HFEA), thinks along pretty much the same lines. Single and lesbian women have the right to receive IVF treatment (at the taxpayer’s expense, of course), she declared, without having to prove the existence of a father figure in the child’s life; in fact, a father was completely “irrelevant” in a child’s life, and a bit of a “nonsense” besides. It is quite confusing, therefore, that just a couple of days earlier she had also promoted new legislation giving children from donated sperm the right to know the identities of their biological parents. The child’s right to know its father far outweighed the donor’s right to anonymity, she had declared then. Well, make up your mind, woman: do children need fathers or don’t they ?