Dear editor:
Mr. Lange speaks not from experience, but outside the parental pulpit regarding surrogacy.
Having lived it ourselves, my former wife and I can attest to the wonders of biotechnology allowing us to bring our son into this world.
It wasn't easy, it was expensive, and we missed out on the joys (and pains!) of watching and feeling his growth under our roof.
But seventeen years later, we've an amazing and kind, stellar student athlete we proudly call our son.
We weren't 'buyers' to use Lange's derogatory label. We used our DNA.
But we needed a surrogate to carry our child, for which we paid handsomely.
California says you must 'adopt' your baby from the surrogate, a formality handled remotely in minutes by our attorney, but at no point was he 'her' baby and not ours.
To characterize the surrogacy process as some kind of abortion-like ripping of babies from surrogate hands is completely absurd.
Are there and have there been malicious actors out to profit off of the hopes and dreams of intended parents? Absolutely.
But to stand in judgement of people and the process, without ever stepping foot in their shoes, runs rather afoul of the good book does it not?
At a time when the US birth rate has fallen below the population replacement rate needed to sustain our country's growth, the pastor's energy would be better spent encouraging all good people to procreate, by whatever means necessary.
Sincerely,
David Diekmann,
Fort Collins
