Calgary, Alberta's only fertility treatment centre prohibits the creation of interracial families - Polidicks

Source - [url=http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/story.html?id=10063343]Calgary Herald[/url] [quote]A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their ethnic background. Catherine, who asked to use only her first name, said she sought invitro fertilization at the Regional Fertility Program last March as a single woman. During routine consultations with her doctor she was told she could only use sperm from donors who were white, like her. “That’s when everything went downhill,” she told the Herald. “I was absolutely floored.” Dr. Calvin Greene, the clinic’s administrative director, confirmed the private facility will not treat couples or singles who insist on using donors of a different ethnicity. The policy has been in place since the clinic opened in the 1980s. [b]“I’m not sure that we should be creating rainbow families just because some single woman decides that that’s what she wants,” he said. “That’s her prerogative, but that’s not her prerogative in our clinic.”[/b][/quote] A policy against "rainbow families" sounds like a clear violation of a human rights act or two, right? Nope! Ever-progressive Alberta is totally okay with it: [quote]The Alberta Human Rights Commission upheld the policy after a white couple brought a complaint against the clinic about five years ago, Greene said.[/quote] Don't worry though, people who have already chosen to sully their Racial Purity(TM) will be provided with an exception: [quote]Interracial couples treated at the clinic have the option of using donors that are ethnically similar to either one of the partners, he added, noting most patients want their children to resemble them.[/quote] This definitely raises the question: how did Hitler get into the fertility business?

[QUOTE]"No cultural relationship with" [/QUOTE] I wasn't aware of the one uniform european culture or uniform white culture...

They apparently seem to believe that culture is automatically predetermined based on skin colour. Maybe they haven't read a book from later than the early 1900s.

Is Alberta the Canadian version of redneck America?

what I mean, okay, Alberta collectively is Texas North because of the more rural communities being conservative Christian types more than big-city liberals, but Calgary is sort of Big City Big Money Liberal Central. This is batshit for even small-town religious nowhere Alberta, never mind Calgary. This and [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1408900"]Edmonton's school board using a pro-abstinence, anti-abortion sex ed program until parents noticed[/URL] makes me wonder if progressive-minded Albertans have been overly complacent for the last 4-5 years.

this is actually creepy, it sounds like something out of a dystopian novel.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;45509689]what This and [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1408900"]Edmonton's school board using a pro-abstinence, anti-abortion sex ed program until parents noticed[/URL] makes me wonder if progressive-minded Albertans have been overly complacent for the last 4-5 years.[/QUOTE] Money over morality. People are still angry about Trudeau and the NDP would never win so the Conservatives get to dominate all of the politics.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45509688]Is Alberta the Canadian version of redneck America?[/QUOTE] Try moving to a smaller town and it gets even worse. It's horrible here.

[QUOTE=Fort83;45509743]Texas is Alberta South.[/QUOTE] Alberta wishes it was Texas.

[quote]Interracial couples treated at the clinic have the option of using donors that are ethnically similar to either one of the partners, he added, noting most patients want their children to resemble them.[/quote] i'm sorry sir/madam your sperm/egg was non-viable since you're white you can choose from our white's only bank which is just only whites

<sarcasm>Skin color. It matters.</sarcasm>

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45509688]Is Alberta the Canadian version of redneck America?[/QUOTE] At least Texas has places like Austin

[QUOTE=Zeke129;45509986]At least Texas has places like Austin[/QUOTE] Calgary? [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] First Muslim mayor in NA and all..

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;45510050]Calgary? [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] First Muslim mayor in NA and all..[/QUOTE] I see your Muslim mayor and raise you an openly lesbian Democrat mayor of Houston. [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] She's married, too! [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] And has been elected three times in a row.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;45509594]This definitely raises the question: how did Hitler get into the fertility business?[/QUOTE] Have you read some of the stuff Margaret Sanger said? He's been in the abortion business for years, this is just vertical expansion.

"rainbow families" what the fuck

As someone with a black mother and a white father, its comical to a point how someone can act like this in todays society.

Holy fucking shit, from a genetics point of view that's a bad as barring people from using their services because you don't have blue eyes and blond hair.

You'd think Alberta had learned not to fuck around with people's rights after they were sued over their [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Eugenics_Board]eugenics program[/url], but no. I foresee a Supreme Court challenge.

And now you know why everyone hates Alberta.

[QUOTE=pentium;45510903]And now you know why everyone hates Alberta.[/QUOTE] I don't hate Alberta, they pay their fair share of taxes. Unlike some other provinces... [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] Gosh I'm turning into a conservative asshole, what happened to me?

Thanks Steve.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45510914]I don't hate Alberta, they pay their fair share of taxes. Unlike some other provinces... [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] Gosh I'm turning into a conservative asshole, what happened to me?[/QUOTE] Ew, conservatives.

Alberta is the south of the north

Heil Alberta

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45510914]I don't hate Alberta, they pay their fair share of taxes. Unlike some other provinces... [editline]26th July 2014[/editline] Gosh I'm turning into a conservative asshole, what happened to me?[/QUOTE] Fairly certain Alberta was a recipient of federal equalization payments longer than not

adam and eve not adam and shaniqua

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;45510211]"rainbow families" what the fuck[/QUOTE] you'd would think rainbows are supposed to be something good, but apparently not for these dudes. :v:

I love my city, but Christ sometimes I'm ashamed of living here.

The only reason I could think of this is gene based health issues between races(if they exist); but to leave your spunk at a fertility bank, you are not to have any kind of health issues afaik The only thing I can agree with is the keeping the sperm in-line with either the couples ethnicity. I don't know why a black and white couple would want to raise an Asian baby. If they seriously wanted to do that, there's adoption. I understand it's 2014 and the race to end racism, but there has to be some sort of standard.