Posted: Wed 21 Jan 2009 05:56 Post subject: Re: Fertility clinic
Powell wrote:
Famu wrote:
Powell wrote:
Famu wrote:
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While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake each and every time we look at her. It is simply impossible to ignore."
Uh huh. Listen lady, no matter how you spin it, "Baby Jessica" is yours. There is no "while" about it.
Anyway, the darker daughter looks almost exactly like her older sister and mom. It's ridiculous how they're trying to play this out as if that baby is the only one in the family with SSA heritage.
I feel bad for that little girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews made a contract with the fertility clinic that she be impregnated with her husband's sperm - not any sperm that happened to be lying around the lab. Many blacks feels racially insulted by the white/mulatto couple's distress, but if Mrs. Andrews had been married to a black man and gave birth to a blue-eyed blond after being accidentally impregnated by Scandinavian sperm, wouldn't those same blacks howl that they deserved millions of dollars in damages? Black intellectuals would no doubt compare the mistake to antebellum slave rape.
There is also the issue of the clinic's incompetence. Who knows how often mistakes like this happen? Cases where the husband and the accidental sperm donor have very different racial phenotypes attract a lot of publicity, but they are only the cases where the mistake was discovered fairly quickly instead of many years later.
If you were or are part of a married couple and this happened to you, would you just say "Oh, what the hell"?
Your comment had nothing to do with what I wrote.
Your only concern was with SSA ancestry and how the Andrews family may or may not feel about it. I say that SSA ancestry is not the issue. Negligence on the part of the company is the issue. You seem to be willing to let the company off the hook.
Powell, you need to stop the strawman argument. It's embarrassing.
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Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2009 13:18 Post subject:
.... what a delicious subject , and it's being so intrepidly addressed here ... and could , or even - 'would' ... have , this issue / concern been raised in 'any' other society , but our own , racist / colorist ... Made in America ??
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