Saturday, April 5, 2008

The Pregnant Man


Watching the news the highlights showed of the first ever pregnant man. I was so amazed, how was it possible for a man to have and carry a baby. I thought 'science has come so far, would the next thing be a time machine?!'. I waited in anticipation for the miraculous story to come on, but as it did i was let down.

It turned out that a Thomas Beatie was to be giving birth to a baby soon, but the catch was he was once a she. It was only a woman who had a sex change but decided to keep his/her reproducing organs. My Mum's Dad had always said that the first man to have a baby would be rich, we still don't know if he was right because it hasn't even happened.

Different people share different opinnions on the story but personally i beleive that it is very unfair to the child. Imagine growing up and being teased by being brought into this world by your Dad. And technically your parents are actually both woman, that would be a hard enough fact to grasp as it is. The child will be scared and chances are won't have a very pleasant or normal childhood. Already the media is swarming around her abnormal family.

The parents beleive that they are just a normal family even though in fact they are far from it and i beleive that they should have thought this through carefully. They are just being selfish and should think about the baby first. The transvesite (Georgina) parliment MP commented on this and thought that it would grow up a normal child with a normal childhood but I think this is just what she/he wants to beleive. There has been alot of commotion against her already, what would become of a child who was born from its father's stomach.

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