We could simply change the law to stop men and women voluntarily giving up their responsibilities towards children they have produced.

This would kill the sperm bank and donor egg industries overnight.

As a conservative you may well have found it strange that society insists men, rightly, take responsbility for their biological children and pursues them when they don’t. But when it comes to donor sperm, we pay them money to walk away.

If this change was made, lesbians and gays would largely stop creating children through artificial means, because most of the time they very deliberately want to exclude one of the biological parents from the child’s life (not a great sign of their fitness as parents I might add).

By the way, I’m not implacably opposed to gays adopting or fostering children (as long as they are second in line behind heterosexual couples). Two parents of the same sex is vastly inferior, all else being equal, to a mother and father, but it’s better than nothing.

Do children of gays benefit from two parents no matter how they came to be?

I don’t see how a thinking person can really believe this. When gays create children through artificial insemination or surrogacy, they do so with the explicit intention of denying those children a mother or father.

Anyone who understands anything about children knows how important a child’s relationship with their biological parent is. It is one thing for children to lose contact with that parent through death or divorce. That’s different.

When gays set out to have children this way (and apparently thousands are) they completely disregard the needs and rights of that child. How anyone can say that is an act of love or a basis for a healthy family is beyond me.

It’s even worse when people (gay or straight) deliberately use an anonymous sperm donor, thus deliberately thwarting the hope most children will have of knowing who their biological parents are. That is perniciously anti-child.

There is an inherent contradiction of liberty versus making laws that restrict liberty such as anti abortion laws. I’m against abortion, and believe that life begins at conception. But I’m just pointing out an inherent contradiction between some aspects of social conservatism and individual liberty.