Sunday, June 17, 2007
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Should I sell an egg?
Apparently you get a lot of money for one. (Enough money for me to purchase an awful lot of sperm and be choosy about it!) But you also have to reckon with the fact that in 18 years or so someone might come looking for you.
This conversation led us to the conclusion that there's something fundamental to your identity about knowing who actually created you. It's not just the genes - it's who created you.
Wobbly examples: Frankenstein and Pinnochio - the person who created them was 'father', not the dead bodies or the wood (the genes, sozusagen) they were made from.
CS Lewis talks about the difference between us and Jesus being that we are created and he is begotten.
Do you put something of yourself in what you create?
Are things we create always, at least partially, like us?
There's a deep lesson in there, simmering at the back of my mind, but I can't quite touch it yet.
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Dorothy Sayers (a theologian and one of the Inklings with C.S. Lewis and Tolkein), wrote a whole theological work about the creative mind. Her premise is that when we were created in God's image, this means that we were made to creative, like Him. All that we knew about God from the bible by the time we get to the sixth day of creation when man was created in his image, was that He was a creator, and He evaluated His work. So she says that whatever else being made in His image means, it is mostly about being made with the ability to create.
So following that analogy, since God creates in His image, I imagine we do, too.
Psalm 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Well now, selling an egg would probably not be the best thing for you. Its kinda like a guy donating sperm, 13 years later BAM, a paternity suit and he is suddenly the dead-beat dad of a kid he never even knew about.
heh heh... i must confess that i've briefly considered selling an egg or two to pay off my college loans... but then i heard that it's actually a really painful procedure and can destroy your body or at least your ability to have your own babies, should the time arise.
The Sayers book is called The Mind of the Maker, and I have a copy on my bedroom floor! I read it about 18 months ago. I found it somewhat difficult, but very elucidating when I grabbed onto a concept. I recommend it for someone who is not looking for a light read.
But I don't think "creating" is the same as "begetting." Begetting is have a child. Parents don't choose the child's gender or hair color or nose shape (at least, they didn't until the very scary present). But when a person creates something, many, many choices are present which reveal the mind of the creator.
I wouldn't sell an egg, if it were me. I'm opposed to fertility treatments in general (when there are so many unloved children in the world, is the biological imperative so much greater than the imperative to love?), and selling an egg enables someone else to engage fertility treatments.
Just my two cents.
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So curious. What did you decide?
LOL! And all this time I was pins and needles, curious about your decision!