Jennifer Aniston: Who Needs Men when We Have Artificial Insemination?

By Peter J. Smith
8/13/2010
LifeSiteNews (www.lifesitenews.com)

What 'can' be done is not always what 'should' be done

A reporter questioned Aniston's character, suggesting it was "selfish" to deprive a child of a father in order to fulfill a personal dream of parenthood. "Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child," the actress asserted in their exchange. "They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part, they can do it with or without that."

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HOLLYWOOD, CA (LifeSiteNews.com) - It's a feminist adage that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", but Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is taking that message a step further, saying that women don't need to "fiddle" with men in order to have and raise a child, thanks to artificial insemination.

Aniston, 41, is the star of an upcoming Miramax film "Switch," in which Aniston's character decides she is tired of waiting for a man to come into her life to have a baby, and elects for artificial insemination. Apparently the film is supposed to be a romantic comedy, as it turns out that the best friend of Aniston's character is the sperm donor.

A reporter at a Sunday press conference in Los Angeles, where the actress was highlighting her movie, questioned Aniston's character, suggesting it was "selfish" to deprive a child of a father in order to fulfill a personal dream of parenthood.

"Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child," the actress asserted in their exchange. "They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part, they can do it with or without that."

"The point of the movie is, what is that which defines family?" Aniston continued. "It isn't necessarily the traditional mother, father, two children and a dog named Spot."

She stated, "Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere."

The comments have drawn criticism from pro-family and other conservative leaders and commentators, who say that Aniston is devaluing the important role that fathers play in the lives of their children.

"What 'can' be done is not always what 'should' be done," Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America told LifeSiteNews.com in response to Aniston's statements. "A woman can have children without a father to raise them, but it's the children who pay the high price for that decision."

Wright added that while traditional family values may be "boring" for those in Hollywood, "they develop stable, secure and healthy people."

"Children need a dad. No amount of insisting 'but I can do whatever I want' can change that fact," she said.

National Catholic Register Columnist Tim Drake, also took umbrage at Aniston's comments, saying the actress needed a basic lesson in biology.

"While a woman may choose to have a child without a man in her life, she'll still need something that only a man can provide to help her conceive that child," remarked Drake. "Hence, they do have to 'fiddle' with a man, in one way or another, to bear children."

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Barb
2 years ago
Also, a cancer study has been done on children conceived through IVF.
Google search: IVF-Conceived Children Have Higher Risk of Cancer: Swedish Study
"IVF-conceived children were also 87% more likely than the general population to have received a diagnosis of cancer by the age of three."
Barb
2 years ago
Yikes, no wonder Jennifer is doomed in her relationships with men. Men, after all want to be respected and connected to family and not thought of as a sperm donor. It would be incredibly difficult finding a lasting love when she is so well known, beautiful, intelligent and extremely wealthy. I imagine that many of those movie stars live in a perpetual bubble of self protection and self absorption. My two sisters raised sons (one single, one widowed) and all of those boys went through deep and long periods of delinquency. They needed their Dads.
K.C.Thomas
2 years ago
Film celebrities are not gods. They preach one night stand culture. They do not believe in God or in any restrictions on sex So leave them,,boycott them. They amass wealth through our craze for films It is not understood why we intellectuals do not realise that these celebrities do not deserve so much . How people work long hours devotedly for the Government,for the people especially patients and the downtrodden. Donot they deserve more ? The capitalist society fattens the rich and exploiting the ordinary populace But justice ,truth are not always present. So some bathe in luxuries when others struggle for existence
Jane Doe
2 years ago
Jennifer you still need a man to have a baby unless you are planning to clone yourself.
Bill
2 years ago
Here's where you DO have a say: don't see the movie in the theaters, and don't rent it when it goes to video!
Ian
2 years ago
How about a message of pro-adoption if a woman is so longing to have a child instead of the self serving need to have a child through birth in an unnatural way. While a single mother adopting still does not fill the need for a father figure, it gives a child a chance to be removed from a ever lessening chance of finding a family system of being in an orphanage. While God granted women the miracle of giving birth, with that right comes responsibilities.
The message from this movie will probably perpetuate the growing teen pregnancies as well for these lost girls that get pregnant and want to raise a child because they think it will 'fix'� them to have a baby. Just another typical example of the growing narcissistic society values.
Roanoke Christian
2 years ago
We have all seen Jennifer Aniston in movies and shows where she is also portraying 'love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control' Gal 5:22-24. Let's love her and show her that the Church would hope to lead her to Truth rather than cast her further away from it by verbal punishment. Instead of instant reprimand, pray, for saints around her to rebuke her with gentleness and simultaneously lead her to understand the proper family structure as God created it.
John SA
2 years ago
Jennifer Anniston's views is proof enough that the concepts of "pro-gay", "pro-abortion" and "pro-feminism" are having negative effects on society. Who needs men? Who needs parents of different sexes? Who needs to have kids that they don't want or can't afford? The false teachings in these concepts are causing people to undermine everything that is just and good. What's next? I fear for the future of this world, but as always my faith is in Christ and the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Diem.Tr
2 years ago
This wasn't against anything,It just her opinion, and peoples have a choices so whatever she makes decision that is her own choices. At least she doesn't kill the child, beside she wants to raise them. Every human being have an important role in thier life, so be it , as long as she is happy with her right decision ........
Nino Baldino
2 years ago
...gee..we are depicted in the flicks as drunks,mean,ignorant and now just plain useless! Are we just good enough to fight wars and save the bill of rights for such as these..sigh,I guess so!!!!.and so 'Brave new world' is becoming more and more a reality after all.

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