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Wired Contributor Claims “Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral”

The WIRED contributor’s argument is definitely a slap in the face to any woman who has experienced infertility – suddenly, their pain at losing or not having biological children is a moral failure?

By Evie Solheim5 min read
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As important as it is to ignore the Clickbait Industrial Complex most of the time, sometimes an article comes along that’s so backward it merits a response. In a recent piece called “Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral,” WIRED contributor Leo Kim argued that would-be parents should ignore their “rudimentary, mechanistic desire” to pass on their genes – a desire he terms “biologism.”