Trent Franks

[HAB911]

Can someone explain why a pro-life/anti-abortion extremist like Franks would disregard his God's rather obvious plan for him and his wife to be barren to the point of impregnating a stranger? How does he justify that? tia

[Cartoonist]

1. Justification

That's how believers think. Everything that happens is God's will.

[trotsky]

2. My money's on that just being a stupid cockamamie "explanation" for his lewd behavior.

He asks all his female staffers if they want to bang, then comes back and says "No I just wondered if they wanted to be a surrogate, you see."

[MichMary]

3. Infertility is a medical condition

Even evangelical Christians and "anti-abortion extremists" understand that. Seeking treatment, or adopting, or surrogacy, isn't defying God's will anymore than taking an aspirin for a headache is defying God's will.

I'm not defending Franks; as far as I know, no one knows what was actually said. But, I know evangelical Christians and staunch anti-abortion people. Really, they aren't wild-eyed crazies. Their point of view is that life begins at conception, and that is their justification for opposing abortion.

[Lordquinton]

5. How delightfully hypocritical of them

Honestly that view makes them even worse in my mind.

[MineralMan]

4. I'm sure there are ways to have a discussion of surrogate parenting

that would avoid offense. I'm equally sure that Trent Franks is incapable of doing so. Here's the sort of dialogue I imagine happened in his offices that caused offense.

Treating surrogate parenting like a sophomoric joke comes to mind, though.

"Well, if you decided to do that for us, you wouldn't have to f**k me, of course, although that wouldn't be so bad, really. I'm just saying... I could just b**t o** in the lab or something. Whaddya say? Haw-haw!"

[Angry Dragon]

6. He should read about Sarah