Surrogate Motherhood
The question of surrogate motherhood has come to the fore in recent times through the case of a couple in the Highlands who have been able to induce an unmarried mother to have a child for them. When we join this along with the present trends in genetic engineering, we appear to be a nation descending to a low level on the moral plane far less that on the spiritual plane. What need there is today for a return to the law of God. Man seeks to be wiser than God who has revealed His will in the moral law and in the Scriptures of truth. To depart from the way of uprightness and truth exposes individuals and nations to divine chastisements and calamities. The ultimate (in one sense) of divine chastisement appears to have overtaken us as a nation, that is, to be given over to our own ways. May the Lord in His mercy deliver us.
(Since the above was written — it was held over from last month’s issue of the Magazine — it appears that the Government is expected to pass legislation to ban surrogate motherhood agencies. It would then be a criminal offence to recruit women for this purpose. The Warnock Committee recommended that agreements signed by surrogate mothers to hand over children should be made illegal. It is also expected that the Government will also eventually bring in legislation to control the whole field of genetic engineering).
Political Teachers
A warning was given by the General Secretary of the Association of Career Teachers of teachers who go into the classroom wearing political badges and who try to force their ideas upon pupils. She instanced the demands for pupil power and pupil rights as emanating in the first instance from these politically motivated teachers. Topics in which these teachers revel seem to be such subjects as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or Greenham Common.
We welcome this warning as it has been apparent for some time that this has been going on even in the Highlands of Scotland. Many are of the view that such teachers have been deliberately planted in schools throughout the country to carry on their sinister work. It is our prayer that their evil designs may be exposed and the young delivered from their influence.