The Centre Party, Liberals (Folkpartiet) and the Moderates want single women to have access to artificial insemination treatment, and are proposing a change to current laws despite opposition from coalition partners the Christian Democrats.
"We are convinced that people's fitness to be parents is not determined by whether one lives in a committed relationship or not," prominent MPs from the three parties wrote in a opinion piece in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) where they proposed a legislative change.
In April last year, the Christian Democrats voted against a similar proposed change, and all the other parties in the centre-right governing Alliance coalition also chose to vote no.
Sweden, which is considered a world leader in gender equality and minority rights, has allowed lesbian couples to undergo artificial insemination since 2005 and allows gay couples to adopt children.
... The Christian Democrats have not changed their opinion on the matter, however.
“We think this is a really bad idea. All children are entitled to their parents. What’s happening here is that they are creating a law that abolishes some children’s right to a parent,” said party leader Göran Hägglund to TT.
He said that the need for parental presence in all other areas is highlighted in society.
“We need more fathers in children's lives, not fewer,” he said.
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Another nail in the coffin of civilization.
Don't let the best interests of children get in the way of adult desires!
From a moral perspective, I find the intentional orphaning of a child from a parent offensive and cruel.
From a fiscal perspective, I would insist that if such a bill is proposed that it include the State's refusal to provide any support for the child.
It's the epitome of selfishness to manufacture a baby with the premeditated intention of separating it from its natural parent(s).
"We are convinced that people's fitness to be parents is not determined by whether one lives in a committed relationship or not,"
That statement is contrary to a mountain of social science evidence. These MP's are NUTS.
Socialists like to create more reliance on the State; those who rely on support of the State become slaves to the State. Two-parent families are the strongest forces to prevent a Socialist take-over. Single-parent households are the most likely to require State support.
"We need more fathers in children's lives, not fewer."
How many more? Three? Eight? Twelve?
"From a moral perspective, I find the intentional orphaning of a child from a parent offensive and cruel."
Completely agree. How could anyone think it's humane to deliberately create an orphan?
Unfortunately the US is one of the worst offenders.
Some states don't even require that one of the commissioning parents be biologically related to the child.
In California you can go to a clinic and choose a sperm donor, choose an egg donor, choose a gestational surrogate and 9 months later you have possession of child that has no biological connection to you at all. A perfectly legal business transaction.
A dirty, dirty hard fight we are in. When morals and character are no more.
This is why all this has a chance of passing.
It is not a question about homo rights.
It is a question of money!
There is so much money and new markets to be made by these social changes! And that is, I repeat, why it will be so, so hard for the Republican heart to truly say “no”. I mean we have the economy to think about. Its a question of national security and individual well being – money!
This only emphasizes the importance of having a very clear word that distinguish the man woman union. With out one it will be very, very hard for our children to see through the confusing fog of standardization”, “all-is-the-sameism” that will be all around them, and educated to them.
We must keep the word marriage, even if they take all else!
And if they take the word 'marriage', then we will have to come up with another word. Also well as another word for “wedding”.
To manufacture a baby with the premeditated intention of separating it from its natural parent(s) is actually a child abuse.
Those politicians promoting child abuse should be jailed.
Sweden caves in to the man hating lesbians and radical feminists who view fathers as nothing more than fish going upstream to sperm.
For God's sake, this is pathetic. Not because of the fact that Sweden is an impressive country, but because of the fact that people are clamouring over one another to have new babies made up at whim. There are thousands of children out there without homes - who were raised with hordes of other children and without one or two parents who need homes. Children with mental problems because they were never properly socialized. Children who will still be there after you order your new baby.
Gay adoption? All for it. Straight adoption? All for it. Single parent adoption? If they can handle the job, then sure - one parent is better than none. But no one needs a tailor made baby, be they gay, straight or anything else. Children need homes, and while I disagree with NOM's stance on gay couples/parents, I have to state that having children 'made' like this is just a waste of the lives of homeless children all over the world. You might end up with a kid that looks like you, sure, but somewhere out there, another child is dying and you have done nothing for them.