March 11, 2015 (
LifeSiteNews.com) – A British woman has given birth to her own grandson, acting as a surrogate mother for her homosexual son.
Kyle Casson's 46-year-old mother, Anne-Marie Casson, 46, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, carried a donated egg fertilized with her son's sperm.
The UK's 2008 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act, which governs surrogacy arrangements, generally discourages surrogate mothers from acting on behalf of a single parent. Under the law it is illegal to hand over a child to only the biological father. Instead, the child must be given to a couple "in an enduring family relationship."
However, in this case a judge ruled that while Anne-Marie Casson and her husband are the legal parents of the child, Kyle can legally adopt the baby boy, because the newborn and his father are brothers.
Mrs. High Court Justice Theis said in her ruling that the baby, who is named Miles, “was born following a surrogacy arrangement whereby the gestational surrogate was [the man's] mother. [Her husband] fully supported this.”
She said the gestational pact was an "admittedly unusual arrangement” and “not one, as far as I am aware, that either this court or the clinic has previously encountered.”
However, she ruled, although highly unusual, [it] is entirely lawful under the relevant statutory provisions," because it was “entered into by the parties after careful consideration, following each having individual counseling and with all the treatment being undertaken by a fertility clinic licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).”
Critics have described Justice Theis' ruling as "dubious" and have called for reforms to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act to prevent what such abuses.
Jill Kirby, a writer and policy analyst told the
Telegraph that she found it “very disturbing that any mother would consider it healthy or appropriate to give birth to her son’s child.”
“What is even more worrying is that the High Court has granted the son an adoption order, partly based on the ‘closeness’ of the relationship between the family members involved,” she continued.
A spokesman for the law firm Natalie Gamble Associates, which represented Kyle Casson in the hearing, said, "Family surrogacy arrangements are not uncommon. We have certainly dealt with many cases where a sister, sister-in-law, mother, or cousin has acted as a surrogate. Indeed such arrangements are actively incentivized by UK law, given the legal restrictions on advertising and brokering surrogacy arrangements between strangers.:
“The unusual feature of this case is not the family context, but the fact that the intended father was single, and therefore unsupported by the law,” the spokesman stated.
Robert Flello, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, said the Casson case raises “many concerns and worries.”
Social media commentators took note of the generational confusion created by a man being his offspring's father and brother simultaneously, with some calling it “gross,” “disgusting,” and “selfish.”
"Our traditional notion of 'the family’ has been stretched to include cohabitation, divorce, step-parents and step children, and gay marriage,” the Telegraph's Cristina Odone wrote. "Can it stretch further to encompass surrogacy cases where a mother and son have a baby together?”
“Or does this endless manipulation in fact leave the family unit hollowed out, a meaningless husk rather than an inspiring template for all?"
Ricos y pobres
El famoso intelectual argentino Mario Bunge afirmó sobre el capitalismo: “Los ricos se han hecho más ricos y los pobres se han quedado igual o peor.” Como se ve, son menester nuevas ediciones del
Perfecto idiota latinoamericano.
Esto que dice Bunge que pasa no ha pasado nunca en el capitalismo, y mucho menos en las décadas recientes, en las que ha habido una
evidente reducción de la pobreza en el mundo. Sostener que los pobres están igual o peor es una gansada monumental.
Despotricar contra los ricos también es una tontería, porque los ricos sólo son malos si son ladrones, pero no si se enriquecen en el mercado. Asimismo, hay que observar que los ricos no son un grupo petrificado donde se repiten siempre las mismas personas, familias y empresas.
Ante diagnósticos tan flojos no cabe esperar conclusiones profundas. La de don Mario es: “lo ideal no es que el Estado sea patrón, sino que los trabajadores sean los patrones, que los que trabajan posean y administren sus empresas, un poco lo que ocurre con el pequeño negocio familiar”.
Otra vez, Bunge no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que sucede con las empresas, y en particular con las familiares: numerosas empresas cierran, y las familiares también. En su boba recomendación de que los trabajadores no sean trabajadores sino capitalistas, este ilustre pensador está olvidando la diferencia fundamental entre un trabajador y un capitalista, que consiste en que éste último puede perder todo su capital.
¿Por qué no pedirá Bunge, sin ir más lejos, que los Gobiernos bajen los impuestos y cotizaciones sociales, para enriquecer a los trabajadores, en vez de recomendar lanzarlos a la aventura empresarial, siempre más peligrosa que la asalariada o profesional?
MANIFESTO OF ‘JIHADI JAKE’ REVEALED
Former Australian citizen ‘Jihadi Jake’ who apparently converted to radical Islam while still at school has reportedly killed himself in a suicide bomb attack, after driving a van load of explosives into a public place in Ramadi, Iraq.
The so-called “white Jihadi” was considered a major propaganda coup for the Islamic State when he travelled to Iraq by way of Turkey last year and was pictured wearing a bullet proof vest and posing with two jihadists and assault rifles. Although he went to fight, eighteen year-old Jake Bilardi had clearly outlived his useful purpose to the Islamic State as he ended up facing the same fate as many of his European-born colleagues, being used as a suicide bomber.
A number of reports coming from within the totalitarian theocratic state have said the Islamic State, while welcoming converts and run-aways from Europe have found them hard to turn into soldiers, as they don’t speak Arabic and are unaccustomed to hard work. They are put onto menial work, or as in this case turned into suicide bombers.
Among the reports of Bilardi’s death as a bomber, with photographs of him driving the explosive-packed van released by the Islamic State, focus has turned onto the writings made by the school drop-out teenager explaining his journey from ordinary life in Australia to self-immolation in the Levant. The
Daily Mail reports the latest entry from his online journal, “From Melbourne to Ramadi: My Journey”. Bilardi wrote before his death:
“With my martyrdom operation drawing closer, I want to tell you my story, how I came from being an Atheist school student in affluent Melbourne to a soldier of the Khilafah preparing to sacrifice my life for Islam in Ramadi, Iraq.
ISIS propagandists have released this image on twitter, which claims to show Jake driving to his death
“Many people in Australia probably think they know the story, but the truth is, this is something that has remained between myself and Allah (azza wa’jal) until now.
“My life in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs was, despite having its ups and downs just like everyone else, very comfortable. I found myself excelling in my studies, just as my siblings had, and had dreamed of becoming a political journalist. I always dreamed that one day I would travel to countries such as Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan to cover the situations in these lands…
“Being just five-years-old at the time of the attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, my knowledge of the operation was basically non-existent…
“It was from my investigations into the invasions and occupations of both Iraq and Afghanistan that gave birth to my disdain for the United States and its allies, including Australia. It was also the start of my respect for the mujahideen that would only grow to develop into a love of Islam and ultimately bring me here to the Islamic State, but I’ll get to that later…
“I guess I was always destined to stand here as a soldier in the army of Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (May Allah have mercy upon him) considering the great respect I had for him even before I entered Islam. May Allah accept him among the best of shuhadah and allow me to sit with him in the highest ranks of Jannah…
“Fearing possible attempts by the increasingly-intrusive authorities in Australia to prevent my departure [to the Middle East] I began drawing up a Plan B.
“This plan involved launching a string of bombings across Melbourne, targeting foreign consulates and political/military targets as well as grenade and knife attacks on shopping centres and cafes and culminating with myself detonating a belt of explosives amongst the kuffar.
“As I began collecting materials for the explosives and prepared to start making the devices I realised that the authorities were oblivious to my plans but if anything was to attract their attention it would be my purchasing of chemicals and other bomb-making materials and so I ceased the planning of Plan B and sat waiting until everything was prepared and I could exit the country undetected”.
Although it is not known how many people were killed or injured by his car bomb, his explosion appears to have been part of a coordinated ISIS attack against Ramadi on Wednesday, in which seven simultaneous explosions killed ten and injured thirty. An ISIS source has claimed the other bombers included Belgian, Syrian, and Georgian militants.
