Remember last Friday when Scanner Bryan brought us the story of the twins who were separated at birth and later married? It was Scanner Bryan, an adoptee's, worst fucking nightmare. Did anyone have a hard time buying the story even though it came from the BBC News, a supposedly reputable news source? Yeah, us neither. How easily fooled we are by media corporations.
Maybe.
Critics are beginning to question the story's credibility, after the subjects refused to reveal their identities (fair enough) and it was used to push the agenda of a conservative activist politician (all to common, yet sketchy):
The Catholic politician -- who discovered the case after talking to
a judge -- used it to highlight perceived deficiencies in the
government's proposed Human Embryology and Tissues Bill, which is
currently going through parliament.
The bill is designed to make
it easier for lesbian and gay couples to have children through assisted
reproduction, recognising same-sex partners as legal parents of babies
conceived through donated sperm, eggs or embryos.
But it
contains no provision to require the identity of the donor to be
disclosed, potentially meaning a child could not be told they were
conceived by assisted reproduction.
Alton raised the case of the
married twins -- who were born after IVF treatment -- during a debate
on December 10, details of which only appeared on Friday.
"There
are implications for everybody involved, but the needs of the child
will always be paramount, and it is right that we should therefore make
the process as transparent as possible," Alton told the Lords.
Dad always told us, "Don't believe everything you read, no matter where you read it." True dat, Daddy-O.
[Heresy Corner via BoingBoing]
