The Octo-nut has a rival for most ridiculous person in America. Her name is Marissa Evans. Mrs. Evans has suffered a terrible tragedy. Her 21-year-old son, Nikolas, was murdered. She has my deepest sympathy -- no parent should suffer such a loss.
But here's where Mrs. Evans loses my pity. She went to court to have her dead son's sperm harvested so that she could, at some future time, use it to sire a grandchild. She says it will "help to heal my heart somewhat." Wrong and selfish reason to bring a child into the world!
Just because science has found a way for a dead man to father children doesn't mean doing so is ethical. Certainly someone who has demonstrated the unstable emotional state that Mrs. Evans has should not be monkeying with nature. A child, in the best of circumstances, needs a parent who makes wise choices. A child born in the way Mrs. Evans proposes needs those wise choices even more.
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