Comments on: Bill to identify sperm donors defeated http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2007/01/30/bill-to-identify-sperm-donors-defeated/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Weintraub http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2007/01/30/bill-to-identify-sperm-donors-defeated/comment-page-1/#comment-41881 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:00:44 +0000 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2007/01/30/bill-to-identify-sperm-donors-defeated/#comment-41881 As one of our commenters suggested, Mr. Marshall should just submit a bill requiring all Virginians to convert to whatever narrow sect of ultra-conservative Catholicism he belongs to, and be done with it. It sure would cut down on the number of bills.

Your analysis is dead on, Vivian. The medical history piece is legitimate, but there is a tendency in some quarters to conflate that with the magical idea that a person who doesn’t have both of their biological parents in their life has been cheated out of a “right.”

That is pure nonsense for any number of reasons – one of which you have articulated here – but suffice it to say that children who are planned for and wanted are the luckiest children in the world.

]]> By: eileen http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2007/01/30/bill-to-identify-sperm-donors-defeated/comment-page-1/#comment-41880 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:06:45 +0000 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2007/01/30/bill-to-identify-sperm-donors-defeated/#comment-41880 I suspect that part of the reason for its defeat is due to who the patron of this bill is and his recent remarks.

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