In just a few short years, our culture has become fully immersed in a whirlwind of progressive propaganda.
The traditional family is scorned at every turn, while all types of “modern” family dynamics are embraced without question.
And rapidly, all moral and ethical boundaries are disappearing – with one family’s story proving just how out of hand it’s become.
Since the Supreme Court’s legalization of homosexual marriage, gay and lesbian “couples” have formed these legal unions and are often doing whatever they can to have children.
Some adopt, some use a surrogate, most are willing to stop at nothing to have a child without the natural physical relationship that God designed for marriage and family.
Matthew Eledge is one of these people, and he and his “husband,” Elliot Dougherty, started researching how they could have a child that was biologically related to them in some way.
After looking into options, the family made a decision together. Matthew’s 61-year-old mother, Cecile Eledge, would be the surrogate, carrying her grandchild in her own womb.
But that’s not the only shocking part – not by a long-shot.
The little girl, Uma Dougherty-Eledge, was born last month. The family spent two years and over $40,000 to conceive her.
Elliot’s Dougherty’s married sister, Lea, donated 24 eggs to be fertilized through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with Matthew’s sperm.
Due to the laws surrounding surrogacy in Nevada, Matthew would be listed as the father on the child’s birth certificate, and his mother – not Lea – would be listed as the mother since she was carrying the child.
So Matthew and his mother are listed as the legal parents. Lea Yribe, Elliot’s sister is the baby’s biological mother, but will legally be the child’s aunt once Elliot goes through the process of formally adopting the baby.
If it sounds confusing, it is. If it sounds unnatural, that’s because it is.
As if the moral and ethical issues couldn’t get more murky, it gets worse.
Since Elliot’s sister, Lea, donated 24 eggs, what happened to the ones that weren’t used in the IVF process?
Eleven of them were fertilized with Matthew’s sperm. Seven of them resulted in developing embryos.
But then, after genetic testing, four of them were killed in a laboratory. Why? Because Matthew had his heart set on a girl, so the males were put to death.
BuzzFeed reports, “Matthew Eledge voiced some discomfort at the power he had over choosing which embryos could live and which could die–just for being the wrong sex, for example.
‘I’m not a super religious person, but you do feel like you’re playing God. Like, am I choosing too much?”’
It would appear that despite his “discomfort,” Matthew didn’t let it stop him from having these embryos destroyed.
One of the three remaining female embryos resulted in a successful pregnancy for Cecile Eledge.
Two others were put into cold storage. And what will happen to them?
“It’s this weird thing. They’re just this bundle of cells, right? But now I’m like, ‘How can you discard those?,’” said Matthew according to LifeSite News.
He says that for now, he and Elliot are keeping their “options open” – not because of any moral obligation to these conceived children, but because the fertility process was so expensive, it would be more “cost-effective” to keep them in storage.
In a piece for American Conservative, Rod Dreher writes of how this case serves as an example of just how far away humanity has strayed from God and morality.
Cecile Eledge can be considered both mother and grandmother to Uma. Lea Yribe is the biological mother and aunt to Uma, as well as the sister-in-law to her own biological child’s father.
It’s incest, plain and simple, says Dreher – and technology and money are destroying God’s plan for the family, as well as thousands of years of social norms.
He says, “…the emptying out of meaning from such basic civilizational concepts as ‘mother,’ ‘father,’ and ‘family’ will lead to civilizational amnesia and bring “catastrophic” suffering on the human race.
We have forgotten, we are forgetting, and our forgetting will be complete in another generation or two. We are creating chaos, and calling it civilization. When the money runs out, or the technology fails, we will live with the consequences of our hubris.”
He is not the only author who has called out the IVF industry for what it is doing to women’s health and the family.
Some are questioning how this unnatural family dynamic will affect baby Uma.
And even Matthew Eledge has voiced concerns about how his daughter was conceived.
“It’s kind of embarrassing. This looks really creepy for us. Let’s just say we will NOT be framing and hanging up Uma’s birth certificate.” Matthew said, according to American Conservative.
Pretty sad words from a father about the birth of his own child.
Dreher laments how progressive culture and technology seem to have completely wiped away any sense of right or wrong, any vestige of traditions that human beings have always followed.
But progressives celebrate these new norms, not thinking about the consequences for children like little Uma.
What do you think about what this family did to allow Matthew and Elliot to have a child at all costs? Leave us your thoughts.