More Anonymous Father's Day Information

Please check out these links and tell your friends!
https://prescreen.com/movie/Anonymous-Fathers-Day (TODAY -Monday 11/21- ONLY, you can spend $4 to watch AFD streaming online for the next 59 days; after today, the price will be $8)

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/AnonFathersDay This is the AFD facebook page.

http://www.anonymousfathersday.com/ This is the official homepage for AFD

http://twitter.com/#!/AnonFathersDay on Twitter

Official Anonymous Father's Day Trailer!

This is the official trailer for the new film that I am privileged to be part of! I'm the first chick in blue.

Timing is Everything

Karen posted a link here to go to Anderson Cooper’s clip about babies being sold to the highest bidder. I watched that video this morning, and wondered about the outrage that these people in the clip showed.

I didn’t wonder about their outrage because I thought they were over-reacting.

I wondered about it because when you get down to it, there’s only one thing that differentiates this situation from a typical surrogacy situation – the time line.

In a typical situation, the intended parents pick out the egg, pick out the sperm, and pick out the woman who will carry the baby, then the woman gets pregnant, has the baby, and everyone is happy.

In this case, the intended parents come in at the end.

So it’s a matter of timing.

I do think that this is a terrible situation, but aside from the fact that this is illegal while it’s perfectly legal to rearrange the order of events, why are people getting their panties in a wad? If any of them thought this through logically, they would see that their anger and disgust should be directed at the entire industry that profits from the commodification of people, no matter when the intended parents come into the picture.

Come on, people, don’t let a timeline dictate how you see what is right and wrong!

Originally posted here: http://familyscholars.org/2011/10/25/timing-is-everything/

Anonymous Father's Day

Last Friday, I was interviewed for Jennifer Lahl's new film, Anonymous Father's Day. This was my first time being filmed, unless you count Christmas mornings, and I was very honored to take part in this project. You can see a video preview here:

http://donorchild.blogspot.com/2011/06/teaser-of-jennifer-lahls-new-film.html

A Teaser of Jennifer Lahl's New Film

UPDATE: Please click here to see the "official" trailer of Anonymous Father's Day!

State Medical Licensing

Here's a great resources for donor conceived people to find their biological fathers IF their father was a med student or resident. This is a list of state medical boards, where you can purchase databanks of every doctor who was licensed in a particular state. I have not gone through every state to see what is offered, but I know that a sortable database is offered for purchase for the state of Texas.


Getting closer!!

The Scandel of Bioethics

I am so excited to share the news that Elizabeth Marquardt and I will be speaking at The Scandal of Bioethics: Reclaiming Christian Influence in Technology, Science, & Medicine, a bioethics conference in Chicago in July.  I am looking forward to this incredible opportunity!

Update:

The conference went really well, and we were well received. I truly enjoyed taking part in presenting our paper, even though I was very nervous!