I am looking for extra work, now that one of the schools I've been teaching at has encountered rough financial waters, and has dismissed all its adjuncts. So I've been faithfully reading our Eugene Craig's List. Tonight I saw this entry. I understand that infertility is a horrific thing, and have had my own experiences with it. But is this really the direction that we should go?
Gilbert Meilaender makes an important distinction between "procreation" and "reproduction." Procreation is a matter of passion, and of receiving a child as a gift from the Lord. "Reproduction" is a matter of our own planning and construction; making a child becomes a project under our own control. Children which are so "made" are products, and like all products eventually are subject to quality control and the whims of fashion.
Somehow this just doesn't sound right:
[WARNING: what follows is meant to be read with the same spirit of irony as Swift's "A Modest Proposal." My apologies in advance for those who might be offended. ]
"In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, 'Greetings, you who are pretty and bright! The Lord wants to employ you for his Next Big Project: the production of the Messiah!'"
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you are in the upper tenth percentile for IQ and have a body mass index of 21.5.Your genome shows a less than 10% chance for developing Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, hypospadias, spina bifida or transposition of the great arteries. So you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be produced will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month, thanks to the Greater Galilee Fertility Clinic! For no word from God will ever fail; his success rate is 100%, according to the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Report: 2007 Preliminary State Clinics List!"
'Okay, but be sure He pays you the $5000 Donor Matching Fee you deserve, Gabriel,' Mary answered. "And my fee will be $22K in compensations and allowances plus expenses." Then the angel left her.
(c)Beth Bilynskyj, Dec. 10, 2007
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Surrogates Needed
$22,000 In Compensation and Allowances Plus Expenses
One of the country's leading surrogacy agencies is looking for healthy, non-smoking parents who live in your community. Surrogates carry to term an embryo created from donors. If you love being pregnant, then you can help bring immeasurable joy to the lives of others! Please visit http://www.surrogateweb.com.Some couples pay hefty fees to the prettiest, brightest women. They also pay a fee, usually around $5,000, to the company that matches them to a donor.The second program is called ?gestational? surrogacy. This involves one woman serving as an egg donor and another woman serving as a gestational surrogate. Through the process of , eggs provided by the donor are fertilized with the sperm of the future father. The embryos are then transferred to the gestational surrogate, who carries the child to term. With the gestational process, it?s generally necessary for the women to synchronize their menstrual cycles. This requires self-administered injections by the surrogate. In most cases it takes two or three transfers to .
Compensation: 22,000.00+
This is a part-time job.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
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