The
Obama administration has unveiled a new policy that effectively grants U.S.
citizenship to foreign women in exchange for acting as surrogate mothers for
U.S. couples or selling their
eggs to American women.
The new policy guidance, announced on Tuesday,
redefines the terms “mother” and “father” in the Immigration and Nationality
Act (INA).
“A 'natural mother' or 'natural father' is a
genetic parent or gestational parent,” the new policy says. This “includes a
non-genetic gestational mother if she is the legal parent at the time of
birth.”
By bearing the child of an American couple, the
mother is then placed at the front of the line when applying for U.S.
citizenship.
“A gestational mother has a petitionable
relationship without a genetic relationship to the child, as long as she is
also the child’s legal parent at the time of birth,” the policy says.
Defining the surrogate mother as part of a
citizen's family confers tremendous advantages if she wishes to immigrate to
the United States, effectively granting the most coveted status in the world –
U.S. citizenship – to her and, in time, to her entire family.
The 1965
Immigration Act drastically changed U.S. immigration
policy. Formally known as the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the
bill gave preferential immigration status to anyone related to a U.S. citizen
in the name of “family reunification.” Once a family member becomes a
naturalized citizen, he or she becomes eligible for taxpayer-subsidized welfare
programs and may in turn send for more extended family members, a process known
as “chain migration.”
"This change in policy only furthers the
buying and selling of children, to the buying and selling of U.S. citizenship,”
Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, told LifeSiteNews. “The right
policy course for the U.S. to take is to stop surrogacy now, for the protection
of women and children.”
“Sadly, this decision by the Obama administration
just opens the flood gates," Lahl said.
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