Of surrogate fathering, heaven’s gate and other dilemmas - Punch Newspapers

If you are a moral absolutist, you will have no problem taking a stand on half of the issues in this essay. But the others might still make you ponder awhile.

You probably just shuddered. But this couple’s decision is not necessarily an isolated one in Japan. It is estimated that 10,000 Japanese children have been born this way. That leaves ethnicity and presumed intelligence as reasons for getting rid of a child that carries the genes of one of the couple. And we’re talking of people of the same race. If you are the judge or juror, would you award them any money?Quite a few readers probably don’t see the dilemma in the above. And quite a few probably won’t see it in the next case either. But the number will most likely go down.

By now the mom had had some time to reflect and give a deeper but carefully worded answer: “Well, that’s because when someone goes to heaven … they, they stay in heaven. Until we meet them there someday.”

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