Posted by
Wayne Andres, RN on Friday, November 14, 2008 12:00:00 AM
It is amazing to me just how far we've come....no scratch that, I mean how far we've fallen from intelligence here in the twenty first century. We are surrounded by amazing technology and continuous scientific achievements; artificial hearts, corrective lens surgery, all kind of transplants, new medicines for almost every type of condition and yet in the midst of it all, we are still making ridiculous assertions; A pregnant man! That's right an amazing feet, possibly the most advanced proof that man is evolving to come down the pike. Newspapers printed the headline, Oprah presents him to the world and this week the experienced journalist Barbara Walters holds a special to help us all relish in this amazing happening. A man is pregnant. How can it be? What will the church say now, there goes all that business of absolutes and a divine creator. Man is evolving just like Darwin said; or is he?
Another great scientific advancement was the discovery of DNA. DNA is man's genetic code. It let's a scientist now almost everything there is to know about a human beings physiological make up, from hair color, eye color and more importantly, gender. Yep, you can dress like a man, grow a beard from testosterone injections, have your breasts removed and yet your DNA, your genetic code will reveal you to be a female. It is the one part of your physical make up you cannot change. Thomas Beatie is not a man, he, no she is a woman. This is not in anyway trying to judge her falsely, or be prejudice or even force on her some kind of undeserved burden. Thomas is a woman by all scientific accounts. Her DNA reads female and except for now removed breasts, she has all of her original female reproductive parts. This is how 'he' conceived a child the first time and is now pregnant with her second. In an age when science in so many ways forces people to move away from foolish thinking and old wives tales, it's important that we get this right; this is just another pregnant woman. Thomas, as she likes to be called now is simply following the natural course of human beings. This is not some miracle, or more important to the cause of evolution, a living example of evolving man. Journalist and the media who present it as anything else are simply being unfair to the public.
My frustration comes from my eight year old daughters question following a commercial for Barbara Walters special, "dad how can a man have a baby"? To which I replied, "sweety, they can't. That is not a man that is woman who grows hair and dresses like a man". For alot of people trying to embrace and deal with a growing homosexual community that might have seemed blunt, but it's not, it is the truth. It is not subjective but objective. For Thomas, there may be a legitimate struggle with identity, but we cannot allow ourselves to present something to the world that is false. Thomas is a woman who is enjoying the miracle of childbirth. The state may have allowed her to change her birth certificate to male but she is still a female. The surgeons may have removed her breasts and testosterone injections may have given her the physical appearance of male, but she is still a woman with a womb. Sorry Oprah, sorry Mrs. Walters but nothing special here....maybe something a little odd, but outside of the miracle of a newborn baby, life is going on as usual. It's this kind of mentality that has allowed our nation to ignore the record, associations and experience of Barack Obama to the point that we actually voted him into the highest office in the world. My friends things are not as they always appear, which is why we need to take our time and look at the facts and follow the scientific formula. A man pregnant? No, just a nation trying to make someone into something they're not.
Wayndres