Faith-based pro-embryo discrimination

C-Plus Caligula never ceases to amaze me.

Remember last week when he appeared with a bunch of children derived from the so-called "Snowflake Embryo Adoption Program", a.k.a. "White Babies -- Guaranteed!!"? This was designed to illustrate that all those frozen embryos resulting from IVF treatments could be adopted by nice white couples instead of being used to save people's lives, and beef up his stance on stem-cell research.

Turns out that this program, which receives money from HHS, allows both the donor family and the recipient family to specify criteria from each other. This means that a donor can specify that only fundamentalist Christian couples may receive their embryos, or that gay or lesbian couples cannot, or that mothers who adopt such embryos must be stay-at-home moms, and presumably also be appropriately submissive to their husbands. It also means that a recipient can specify that the embryo be conceived of only those with a "pure" White Anglo-Saxon Protestant gene pool, or that it be of tall parents, or have blue eyes, or whatever.

Conservatives love to decry the use of birth control on the grounds that it fosters "Eugenics", yet they think this is perfectly OK.

This is a program that behaves like an adoption agency, yet is permitted to use adoption criteria that no other regulated adoption agency would be able to get away with.

John Aravosis points out:

...these people were at the White House. AT THE WHITE HOUSE, at the invitation of the president. The president wanted this to be THE MODEL for the country - religious-based (and who knows, race-based?) discrimination as the model for the entire country.