Creating Motherless Children: Wombs for Rent

How can a human being be created without a mother? Take reproductive technologists and mix them generously with lawyers and judges in a totally out-of-control way and voila, it goes like this:

A woman agrees to be a paid surrogate, or "gestational carrier"- renting her body to be used as a hatchery for anonymous egg and the sperm of a paying customer. Then, the human hatchery who is not "genetically connected" to the twins she incubated and expelled from her uterus....wants no trail connecting her to this arrangement.

She and the sperm donating customer who paid to rent and use her as a human incubator, "Roberto d.B", were not satisfied to follow procedures already in place-such as have her terminate her rights and allow the babies to be adopted, or simply release custody to the sperm donor...they want no the tawdry events that brought these babies into t he world. They want the "creations" that she germinated to be absolutely and totally motherless children. The egg donor was not "involved" in the case, just another anonymous cowardly profiteering contributor to this "experiment"... persona non grata.

And, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed with them 4-3. The goose that laid the golden egg is off the hook of any and all further responsibility to the two infants she brought into the world. The babies are not required to have a mother listed on their birth certificates.

Judge Dickens argued that Judges routinely allow blank spaces for mothers on birth certificates in surrogacy cases. However, this case marks the first time the Equal Rights Amendment was used by a state to make the decision. In a 56-page decision, the majority argued that a man who can prove he has no genetic relationship to a child can be ruled not to be its father, so a woman should have the same ability.

And thus we can now proudly have both fatherless and motherless children! What great feats we can accomplish when we put our collective minds to it. Wouldn't Orwell be proud?