People who don’t have sex or who struggle to find a partner
with whom to have children will now be considered as disabled by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the
express.co.uk website. Infertility has been considered a disability for some
time now, but the new WHO guidelines are much more inclusive, apparently
embracing those who are very shy or just struck out at the local watering hole.
WHO
touts the change, stating that it will give every individual “the right to
reproduce.”
Every individual has the right to reproduce?
Cloning, cell-division?
Dr.
David Adamson, one of the new standard’s authors, sees them as a “big chance”
for single and gay people, saying: The definition of infertility is now written
in such a way that it includes the rights of all individuals to have a family,
and that includes single men, single women, gay men, gay women. It puts a stake
in the ground and says an individual’s got a right to reproduce whether or not
they have a partner. It’s a big change. It fundamentally alters who should be
included in this group and who should have access to healthcare. It sets an
international legal standard. Countries are bound by it.” Ah, I see.
The right
of single men, single women and gays and lesbians to reproduce? An individual
has a right to reproduce whether or not anyone else is involved? We
sure are doing a lot of “fundamentally
altering” things.
Josephine Quintavalle, Director of the group
Comment on Reproductive Ethics, is less than thrilled with this new directive.
“This absurd nonsense is not simply re-defining infertility but completely
side-lining the biological process and significance of natural intercourse
between a man and a woman.
Sadly
Josephine, that would be the whole point.
She
continued: “How long before babies are created and grown on request completely
in the lab?” Probably not long.
We are
all bound by climate-change
agreements? We are all bound by
reproductive-rights changing agreements?
There are a few things we seem utterly
incapable of reproducing here in the United States, however: the freedom,
sovereignty, dignity, logic, courage, character and wisdom our Founders
bequeathed to us.
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