In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:50:36 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 12/9/2017 8:26 AM, micky wrote:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.2ec56f0c041e

Lafferty said she was struck by what she called the hypocrisy of
Franks’s conduct: “Offering someone five million bucks is not a
discussion of surrogacy,” she said Friday. “Trent Franks says that he’s
a Christian and a conservative. I’m a Christian and conservative. What
he did offends me. It’s not Christian, and it’s not conservative.”

Franks, 60, said in his statement that he and his wife have long
struggled with infertility. After having twins with a surrogate, the
couple sought additional children, he said.

She seems to know exactly what is Christian and what isn't. I wonder h
ow she knows that.

“Offering someone five million bucks is not a discussion of surrogacy,”
Then what is it?


Who cares. For $5million I'd have his baby. Is the offer still open?

I'll check.

Is it all cash?

Ah, good question. I think most of it is in bitcoins. g

I thought the going price for a surrogate, the amount that goes to the
woman, was up to 50,000 dollars (plus medical expenses, of course.) and
that can really help someone through 2 or 3 years, but 5 million should
last a lifetime.

"He offered her $5 million if she would conceive a child, that’s what
she told,", so maybe he suggested she be the mother, maybe she was
good-looking, or tall, of something he liked. But I'm sure that could
be negotiated and he'd go get a donor egg. IIUC, those aren't hard to
find.***

Still, I can see turning it down, but I can't see complaining about it.
She was lucky he asked her. He could have asked everyone else first.

"Everyone knows the other's verse". That is, everyone can say what
verse** in the Bible the other guy is violating, but they usually don't
know which verse he himself is. **Though she doesn't say which verse
this violates. "Be fruitful and muliply"? That couldn't be it.


Wikipedia doesn't say how he got his money, and that's unusual for them.
The radio said he had lots.


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Race: Caucasian
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Despite the example I picked at random, several on the first page
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$7000, 26,000, a drop in the bucket compared to 5 mil.