Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show, “Back to the Frontier,” has stirred up backlash from their Christian supporters, as it features a homosexual couple who used a surrogate to become fathers to their two boys.
The Gaineses did not take the backlash well, with Chip doubling down on their position by writing in a post on X: “Talk, ask qustns, listen ... maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never.”
“It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian,” he added.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is disappointed in the Christian couple.
“You are watching Chip and Joanna Gaines now continue to descend into the abyss,” Deace says. “Now, what I think will be fascinating about them is they have chosen — well, Chip in particular tried to be a keyboard commando tough guy the last time they got exposed and went about not just deconstructing his faith, but reconstructing and attempting to say, no, they actually represent the true light of Christianity.”
“And that generated a way bigger level of backlash than what I’ve seen with others who have gone down this road,” he adds.
Deace explains that this is a common pattern that unfolds when it comes to Christian television stars like Chip and Joanna.
“What you see is using us to gain an audience. And then once you gain a certain foothold of that audience and credibility with said audience, to the point now that you cross over as something that’s known mainstream,” Deace explains.
“Once that crossover happens, then the offer is brought to you from the spirit of the age. Bow to the shibboleth of the damned, the rainbow jihad. And they pretty much all do,” he adds.
Now, what Chip has done by calling out his own base may have caused irreversible damage.
“They chose not to just abandon their base or assume that their base would not know and just stay with them no matter what. They chose to punch back at their base. So we’ll see if it works out for them or not,” Deace says. “It’s a bold choice, Cotton.”
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A Chinese entrepreneur says he has finally solved the puzzle for those who do not want to get married.
In fact, Zhang Qifeng, founder of Kaiwa Technology, says his product will assist not only men who are looking for a nontraditional wife, but also women who want a child but do not want to become pregnant.
Qifeng, who previously developed service and reception robots, said his product would have a prototype within the next year and solve one of China's biggest problems.
'Some people don't want to get married but still want a "wife."'
For the low price of just $14,000 USD, Kaiwa Technology plans to fix China's population decline and aging society by introducing a "pregnancy robot," Newsweek reported.
"Some people don't want to get married but still want a 'wife'; some don't want to be pregnant but still want a child," Qifeng has decided. "So one function of our 'robot wife' is that it can carry a pregnancy," he added.
Using a synthetic uterus already at a "mature" stage, the robot would serve as an incubator for 10 months while nutrients are delivered through an artificial umbilical cord.
Still, what Qifeng is proposing could ultimately end up being illegal in China.
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"I initiated development to solve the population decline issue," Qifeng continued, per VN Express. "While commercial surrogacy is designated as illegal, I want to meet the demand of those who do not wish to marry but want to have children."
The Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore said he hopes to work around the ban with the robots and build humanoids that "can carry a full-term pregnancy 'in the normal way.'"
"We want to integrate a gestation chamber into a humanoid robot," he said.
Qifeng appeared to then describe sex robots, saying the 100,000-yuan wombs would need to be "implanted in the robot's abdomen so that a real person and the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy, allowing the fetus to grow inside."
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VN Express reported that Chinese infertility rates have skyrocketed between 2007 and 2020, from 11.9% to 18%. This issue has caused major city centers to cover artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization under medical insurance for infertile couples.
Kaiwa Technology will have to hurdle Chinese laws that have already shut down the idea of a "nanny robot" that monitors and cares for embryos in 2022. According to the Independent, fetuses cannot be developed in artificial wombs beyond two weeks in China.
Qifeng has reportedly held discussions with provincial authorities in Guangdong, China, with no progress formally announced.
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Egg donation and surrogacy have been lauded as ways not only to make a large sum of cash, but also to help those in need. But whether it’s an exploited military wife or a college student pressured by financial desperation, the truth about the practice is heartbreaking.
“A new study came out … that showed almost half of people who sell their gametes go on to regret it,” Kallie Fell tells Allie Beth Stuckey, who points out that gametes are eggs or sperm.
“I just am thinking back to that college student who’s enticed by the financial gain and her altruistic motives are exploited. And just to think that half of them regret that or wonder where their children might be,” she continues.
Many of those who choose to sell their eggs or sperm are advertised to on social media, which Stuckey has noticed via large mom influencer accounts.
“I don’t know if these people are being paid, but I see a lot of influencers, who they’re mom influencers, and all of a sudden they’re on this surrogacy journey. I just saw Miss Rachel, who I know a lot of people love. Seems like a very sweet person and a very good mother. She just welcomed a child via surrogacy,” Stuckey says.
“And it just adds to this narrative that surrogacy … is this altruistic, you know, benign, benevolent process that goes on. But it’s not,” she says, asking Fell, “Would you say that surrogates are exploited in the same way that egg-sellers are?”
“Absolutely,” Fell responds. “I think a different population is often targeted for a surrogate mother than an egg donor. They're two very different populations. Surrogate mothers … it seems like more and more are contacting me daily with their horror stories.”
“Surrogate mothers tend to be women who, again, very altruistic. They want to help. They had easy pregnancies. They typically have small children at home, but they’ve had easy pregnancies and they’ve had a friend or someone else they know that struggled with infertility and they want to give the gift of life,” she continues.
But it’s not just their altruism that draws them to surrogacy.
“I found too in our research that military wives are another big target … from fertility agencies for surrogacy because they’re at home with small children. They’re often hard to employ because they’re moving around a lot with their partners in the military. And this is a way that they can contribute to their household and also help another family,” Fell explains.
And unfortunately, the risks of surrogacy are not fully known — as it's a fairly new artificial process.
“Surrogates have to be pumped with hormones as well in order to carry the child, because you have to be in the same part of your cycle that you would be if a naturally, you know, a fertilized egg was going to implant into your uterus. So your endometrial lining has to be just right,” Fell explains.
“We don’t know all the consequences of that,” she says.
What they do know is that surrogates tend to be higher risk and have increased numbers of C-sections, preterm births, placental abruptions, placental abnormalities, high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, "all of these things,” she continues, adding, “The list goes on.”
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