Not really understanding the author’s assertation that the procedure is “unnecessary”...maybe read about the real changes women go through after traumatic vaginal birth and then tell me it’s a cosmetic procedure.

Uhhh it says right in the article specifically why he’s not made aware of who he’s seeing ahead of time, and guessing the name isn’t a part of it considering he asks their names in the video.

As a child of a single mom, HARD NO. My mom made (guilted) me into celebrating her on Father’s Day. Taught me that I didn’t have a father. That he wasn’t important. I’m not here for that shit anymore. Fathers are important.

A child...not their child. I assume one of them is the biological father and of course likely both are the legal parent, but it’s a child from donor eggs, and a surrogate’s body...and since you can’t own people this child is a lot more than ‘just’ Jeff and Gage’s child.

It’s on a state by state basis, they just legalized it in New Jersey for instance.

No....no...it’s really hard to NOT pick up ‘sounds’ off-mic. It’s hard to pick up clear, clean dialogue off-mic. But not sounds.

Ban the legalized human trafficking practice that is surrogacy!!

“not every city in the country” *lists 5 cities out of 20,000*

Wow you are maybe the biggest asshole I’ve ever seen in kinja.

I’m cryingggggg

Uhhhh, no, it is certainly not a given. It’s estimate that a majority of donor conceived children are not told of their true parentage, particularly with donor eggs as it’s easier to hide (pregnancy “proof”). There are no laws in the US requiring disclosure, no regulations regarding records that fertility clinics…

Well of course there’s no way this was an accident...

More importantly how is the woman whose eggs she’s using doing? Any cancer? Infertility? What’s her plan for ensuring the child knows where they came from and has access to their full biological family?

I love this but also the “I’ll rip up her whole life” seems like a knock off of a Rachel Bloom song.

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Every time one of my coworkers writes something and asks me to edit it for them, the first thing I do is Find>Replace “ “ -> “ “

Well, I will say you’re probably slightly less likely to have MORE luck at the other companies than at Ancestry since it’s the largest. But I tested, uploaded, transferred etc and had NO good leads...in this order...
23andMe->GEDmatch->MyHeritage->FamilyTreeDNA->GEDmatch again because their main database doesn’t accept…

You don’t need more than one test to get the full benefit of GEDmatch.

I am donor conceived and matched with my father on Ancestry a month ago. My whole world has been turned upside down (in a good way). I want to climb in a hole and cry forever when I think about how thankful I am that the DNA technology has made this possible. When I would fantasize about finding him as a kid, I…

Hmmm. Let’s just not go comparing people’s pain for sport, huh?