Hilary White on J-Lo's latest interview. (I am a J-Lo fan :) Today Elle magazine issued an interview with Mrs. Marc Anthony in which she avers her moral objection to artificial methods of procreation. Jennifer told Elle, "When it comes to family and relationships, I'm quite traditional. Just because of the way I was raised ... And I also believe in God and I have a lot of faith in that, so I just felt like you don't mess with things like that."
Her remarks come after she has finished filming a movie, "The Back-Up Plan," the plot of which revolves around artificial insemination by an anonymous donor.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the response from the celebrity-watchers on the internet has been blank incredulity. One commented, "Jennifer Lopez is more delusional than we thought," and said she "can't help the crazy-talk".
"Crazy-talk". Yep, that about sums up the world's opinion about any moral objection to, well, really to anything on offer in modernity's bountiful sexual and procreative caffeteria.
And I'm afraid I have to fault Mrs. Anthony's explanation: "I'm traditional." "It's the way I was raised." "I believe in God."
Yes? And? It seems a disappointing result of a lifetime in Catholic schools that Jennifer can give nothing more than a vague hand-wave toward a reasonable objection. Why, specifically, we might ask, does belief in God mean an objection to IVF? What does being "traditional" have to do with infertile couples acquiring babies by whatever means is medically available?
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3 comments:
I think her comments about being traditional are laughable. The woman has been married three times - and NONE of those marriages took place in a Catholic church.
Sounds more like misguided eugenics to me... "If you can't it have a baby naturally, maybe you shouldn't have one at all."
What business is it of hers, anyway?
The catholic church is plagued by shallow believers. People who claim to be catholic because their parents were, and their parents before them, but are really catholics only in name. They have no knowledge of the church's theology and no interest in learning.
Protestant churches have the same problem, but I think the roman catholic might be the worst affected.
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