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04/4/2007
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RyersOnline's Top 10: Honorary controversy with Somerville - #5
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| Ian Munroe / Ryersonian Staff | #5:
Controversy erupted this summer when Ryerson University conferred an honorary degree on medical ethicist Margaret Somerville.
A number of faculty from Ryerson and other universities and students vocally protested Somerville views that children’s rights are violated when they are adopted by same-sex couples.
Somerville defended her views on same-sex marriage by saying they are rooted not it homophobia or hate, but from her views on artificial reproduction.
”I believe very strongly that it is fundamentally wrong to create a child from two women or two men or from artificial gametes, and it’s wrong to do it between a man and a woman without a natural ovum and a natural sperm,” Somerville told Maclean.ca in late June.Since bearing and raising children is the main object of marriage, same-sex cannot ethically marry, Somerville said.
For more on this story see our links below:
Somerville doesn't hate just dissents
Ethicist protests continue
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