Thomas Frank Quotes
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
This is a fascinating quotation. In general we associate religious fundamentalism and especially theocracy with retrograde and ancient views of living with modernity avoided wherever possible. However, in Iran, where almost all other fundamentalist leaders have claimed that in vitro fertilization in general and 3rd-party donation in particular are against God’s law, the Supreme Leader, not only allowed this techniques but also instituted major programs of birth control and in vitro fertilization to allow the woman to control her reproduction. His stricture was that the parents of these children bring them up following Islamic law.
Kass was appointed for his religious, anti abortion views and he is an excellent proponent of one perspective. There are others who do not necessarily see human cloning in such a dark light. Although, the process has to be developed, at some time it well might be a mode by which infertile people could have children. Kass’s criticisms were made by others when in vitro fertilization techniques were being developed.
Sanger faced charges of obscenity for explaining birth control in a magazine she founded called the Woman Rebel. She got no political support from Wilson or the Democrats. The few politicians who did support her were Republican progressives and reformers.
Thomas Carr Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal.
