One Spunky Mama

Hi. Happy Thursday.

I don't even know how to begin this post. I keep giggling every time I look at the title. You'll know why in about 4 sentences.

I am participating in Mamakat's writing prompts today. I chose to write about a local news story. This story comes from Bedford, a community in the DFW area. Here is the intro sentence for the story on UPI:

A Texas woman has successfully sued to preserve the body of her son for sperm extraction so she might have a grandchild, officials said.

I don't want to minimize the pain that mother must be feeling over losing her son. As parents, we never expect to outlive our children. At the very least, we want to see them graduate high school and college (hopefully), get married, and have children.

But on some level, I really feel that having children should be MY decision, not my mom's.

This woman's young son was not married, so any plans he had about having children were theoretical and hopeful, at best. Now, this woman (Marissa Evans) has received permission to have her son's sperm extracted from his body. A urologist in Austin has volunteered to do the procedure. But I gotta ask, who is going to bear this child? With a grandma off her meds like that, can you imagine the kind of demands she will have for the unfortunate surrogate? And that poor child, I can only imagine the kind of questions that will be raised once the child grows to be old enough to understand where he/she came from.

Okay, if you want to see the full story, just go here. The woman presented her case to the folks at the Today show on NBC last week. I missed that one, but I bet the conversation was one for the books.

Maybe Gramma can call Octo-mom. I bet she could use the money.