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In The Mailbox: 07.08.19

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Of Course Democrats Spy On Americans
Knowledge Buffet: Country Men, or, What Comes After Proud Boys
357 Magnum: A SWAT Raid For Housing Code Violations
EBL: Another Day, Another Asshat, also, Commodore Perry Sails Into Tokyo Bay, 1853
Twitchy: Lefty Gun Grabbers Flip Out On Dana Loesch For Accurately Framing Eric Swalwell’s Nuke Threat
Louder With Crowder: The Jig Is Up, AOC, You’re An Overdramatic Fraud! also, Pelosi Claims Trump Is Using Census To “Make America White Again”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Don’t Do Gay, also, Podcast #114 – The Bucket List Episode
American Greatness: Angry About Border Conditions? Blame Congress, also, The Cowardice Of The College Republicans
American Power: How The “Invisible Primary” May Choose The Dems’ 2020 Nominee, also, School Bus Driver Drives Bus Full Of Kids Through Raging Floodwaters
American Thinker: Welcome To The Democrat Freak Show, also, The Democrats’ Situational Racism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: How The Press Became Castro’s Willing Accomplice, also, Duality At Duke – Castro Si, Robert E. Lee No
BattleSwarm:  Trump Says Immigration Raids Are Back On, also, Democratic Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: On The Will To Power & Democracy
CDR Salamander: Moran’s Defenestration
Da Tech Guy: Not Shaken, also, You Already Paid For The B-2 Fuel
Don Surber: What If They Are Right About Trump? also, Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Sometimes It’s Just This Easy
First Street Journal: Kamala Harris Emhoff’s Racial Pandering Has Led Her To Propose A Very Dangerous Policy
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Reaches Into German Mom’s Pram, Chokes Her Six-Month-Old Baby, also, International Union Of Muslims Scholars Head Says True Victims Of Today’s Jew-Hatred Are Islam & Muslims
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Talking About Something He Knows Nothing About
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood’s Gay Activists Silent On Ngo Attack, also, Left Uses Threats & Violence To Stop Conservative Art
Joe For America: Dem Rep Escobar’s Staff Goes To Mexico To Teach Migrants How To Game The Asylum System, also, AZ Police Asked To Leave Starbucks After Customer Whines “I Don’t Feel Safe” – Starbucks Apologizes
JustOneMinute: Jeffrey Epstein Busted
Legal Insurrection: NY Gov Cuomo Signs Bill Of Attainder Allowing Congress Access To Trump’s NY State Tax Returns, also, Gibson’s Bakery Seeks Up To $13 Million In Attorney Fees From Oberlin
The PanAm Post: It’s Time For President Macri To Take On The Argentine Airline Unions
Power Line: Washington Post Shills For Antifa, also, Birds Of A Feather
Shark Tank: Rep. Brian Mast Assailed As “Traitor” By GOP Activists
Shot In The Dark: The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence – Lying Now, Lying Then, Lying Always
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – No, Retiring Later Doesn’t Make You Die Sooner – Or Later
The Political Hat: Venezuela – The Tyrants & The Tyrannized
This Ain’t Hell: Army Revives Antiques, also, Batter-Brained IHOP Can Kiss My Bucks Goodbye
Victory Girls: Pelosi Puts Her Foot Down On Occasional Cortex & Co., also, Police Scanner Sheds Light On Urban Cop Woes
Volokh Conspiracy: Texas v. U.S. – Why The Individual Mandate Is Still Unconstitutional
Weasel Zippers: USWNT Tosses Flag To Ground To Ham It Up For Cameras, Player Kelley O’Hara Rushes In To Retrieve It, also, Biracial Rapper Pulls Out Of Festival After She Learns White People To Be Charged $10 More Than Colored People
Mark Steyn: Champagne For Caesar, also, Contempt Is The New Tax Evasion

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Have I Ever Mentioned How Much Ace Hates Him Some Never-Trumpers?

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Have I Ever Mentioned How Much Ace Hates Him Some Never-Trumpers?

In the sidebar, Ace keeps taking jabs like this one at Seth Mandel:

Local Soyboy Beta Cuck Shocked, Surprised to Learn That His Leftwing Twitter Friends Are Extremists Who Support Antifa
Noted author of Everything I Ever Needed To Learn I Learned in the First Term of the Younger Bush Administration
NPC SOFTWARE UPDATE NOTICE: You have not updated your NPC Software in sixteen years. We will schedule an automatic update to your NPC Software at 3:15 am tonight. Accept/Decline?
>>>DECLINE

You probably get that joke, but if not, I’ll explain that “NPC” stands for “Non Player Character,” a sort of preprogrammed feature in a videogame, and the reference to “sixteen years” takes us back to 2003, i.e., invading Iraq as part of the Global War on Terrorism, so what Ace is saying, basically, is that Mandel is stuck with an obsolete Bush-era model of “compassionate conservatism” that is inoperable in 2019.

Another sidebar jab:

Hey, who’s that retweeting Russian state TV propaganda….? Is that… Oh my stars and garters, it’s super TruCon and “functionally pro-life” nepot and grifter Jonah Goldberg
As John Lydon/Johnny Rotten asked, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
I wonder if the Jonah/Steve Hayes project will disclose their angel investors. I have a few guesses about who’d be on that list.
i wonder if the Cuckshed and Cuckshed Jr. will have any spats about poaching each other’s leftwing investors
Note that this Pretend Intellectual makes no effort at all to synthesize news of RUSSIAN state TV mocking Trump with his previous “PUTIN WANTED TRUMP” conspiracy theories. It doesn’t matter, I guess — as long as it’s negative stuff about Trump.
Here are my core unshakable beliefs — If you don’t like them, I have others.
I find Jonah Goldberg’s thinking flabby and lacking proper support, like his moobs. Ou, en francais, “son beetch-teets.”

Again, you probably get that, but if not, I’ll explain that the “Cuckshed” refers to The Bulwark, a site run by refugees from the Weekly Standard, and “Cuckshed Jr.” refers to a similar Never-Trump project with Goldberg and ex-Standard editor Stephen Hayes, who used to be a regular Fox News commentator back in the day, circa 2011, when the Mitt Romney presidential juggernaut was a thing. Why does Ace keep taking these jabs? My own instinct is just to ignore the Never-Trump crowd and let them slide into forgotten oblivion, but I think Ace might actually be smarter than me, playing three-dimensional chess, as it were.

Just a guess here, but what Ace might be thinking is that this whole constellation of washed-up former Fox News stars will eventually emerge in the fall of 2020 to campaign for whoever the Democrats nominate. They’ll be the faces of “Republicans for (Fill-in-the-Blank Democrat).” And so Ace is sagaciously monitoring them, reminding his readers that all these guys are a faithless crew of untrustworthy RINO quislings.

On the other hand, maybe there’s no 3D chess strategic insight involved and Ace just really hates their guts. Look how he sticks a few good shots at David French in the middle of a post about Starbucks. You’ve got to admit, this stuff is fun to read, whether it’s strategic or not.

Of all the stupid things I’ve ever done in life, the one mistake I never made was pissing off Ace so bad he started making fun of me. No wise man would ever want to become an object of his sarcasm. By the way, that’s how I “won” my showdown with LGF’s Charles Johnson back in 2009. CJ had been building up bad karma in the right-wing blogosphere for a while, and when he came after me, Ace finally let fire with the big guns. What Ace did to CJ was quite like what happened to Burnside at Fredericksburg, where Longstreet’s chief of artillery boasted, “General, we cover that ground now so well that we will comb it as with a fine-tooth comb. A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it.”

Some of you may wonder, “Who is this ‘Charles Johnson’ of whom he speaks?” Yes, it’s been a decade since The Race Detective was relevant, and that’s the point — our Never-Trump Republicans have marginalized themselves in such a way that they are probably doomed to the same fate. Ten years from now, most people will not even remember them.



 

Category: Ace of Spades

Tom Steyer: ‘Hey, What This Party Needs Is Its Own Lunatic Billionaire Candidate’

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Tom Steyer: ‘Hey, What This Party Needs Is Its Own Lunatic Billionaire Candidate’

 

The Impeachment Drum Major throws his baton in the ring:

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is planning to launch his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, a report said Sunday.
The 62-year-old Steyer — who toyed with the idea of running in the past — held a private conference call lat week to tell people close to him that he was planning to run, according to Politico.
“He’s definitely focused on the [fact that the] economy is not as good as people are making it out to be,” a source told the newspaper.
“I think his heart’s in the right place. If he’s doing this, he’s got a reason behind it — He’s a very intelligent man.”
Steyer, a former hedge fund manager, founded the environmental advocacy nonprofit NextGen America.
He also founded a group, and spent millions, seeking to gain support for the impeachment of President Trump.

“Run All the Candidates,” as the professor keeps saying, and I’m not quite sure what Steyer thinks he’ll accomplish, except to teach Americans the meaning of words like “monomaniacal” and “idée fixe.” For years, Steyer has been pouring money into the coffers of organizations promoting homosexuality, environmentalism and open borders. So if you’re a Mexican lesbian concerned about global warming, Tom’s your guy. More recently, of course, Steyer’s been Patient Zero of the Trump Derangement Syndrome pandemic, spending vast sums to air TV ads demanding the president’s impeachment. What made him decide now that he needs to join the nearly two dozen Democratic candidates? Is it because there’s not enough zany Trump-haters on the debate stage?

Oh, but California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who advocated using nuclear weapons to disarm American gun owners, is dropping out of the race.

So, yeah, I guess they need more crazies on stage now.



 

Category: Democrats

Anti-American Women Win World Championship of Anti-American Sport

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Anti-American Women Win World Championship of Anti-American Sport

 

If you don’t want to Make America Great Again, why should Americans cheer for you? If you are an American opposed to the freely elected government of your own country, our First Amendment protects your right as a citizen to engage in protest, but those who support the government cannot be required to endorse your protest.

How many celebrity athletes expressed Tea Party sentiments while Obama was president? Can anyone recall sports teams refusing to go to the White House after winning a championship during the Obama years? Perhaps you can think of a right-wing analog of Megan Rapinoe, but searching my memory, I don’t recall any Democrat president ever being openly insulted the way the U.S. women’s World Cup team has insulted President Trump. And if Rapinoe and her teammates imagine that soccer will become more popular because they have made their sport symbolic of an anti-American protest movement, my guess is that they will be learn otherwise. There has been a lot of noise about the disparity of income between men and women in professional soccer, but the fact is that in most of the world, this is a sport played primarily by men. Only in the United States, where real men play real football, is soccer regarded as a coed sport. One reason the U.S. women are so dominant in international competition is that in soccer-crazy countries like Brazil and Argentina, the sport is still regarded as too rough for girls to play. (And if you’ve seen how Brazilians and Argentines play the game, you understand why they routinely stomp the crap out of the U.S. men’s team.)

Honestly, I am pro-soccer. I think America is a big enough country that we can afford to have some of our best athletes pursue soccer without much loss to our dominance of other professional sports. Can you imagine what the U.S. men’s World Cup team would be like if soccer attracted the kind of athletes who compete in the NBA and NFL? We can afford to spare a few would-be linebackers or point guards to strenghten our soccer program, but that’s not going to happen if soccer cannot escape its unfortunate reputation as an un-American sport, and the protests by Rapinoe & Co. are making that reputation worse, not better.

Also — and I hate to point this out, but somebody’s got to do it — would it be possible to allow some heterosexual players on the U.S. women’s team, just for the sake of “diversity” and “inclusion”?



 

Category: Sports

Rule 5 Sunday: Cynthia Kirchner

Posted on | July 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Actress, model, and grad student at NYU, Cynthia Kirchner appeared in Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Entourage, as well as several independent films and TV series. She’s best known as a lingerie model for Guess, Intimissimi, and Victoria’s Secret. Here she is advising guys on buying lingerie for the wife or girlfriend.

Striking in red.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny kicks off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box #671, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Pesky Physics Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Also, Bacon Time serves up Rule 5 The Deep wet T-shirt action.

EBL’s herd this week includes Sydney Powell, Canada Day, Stephanie Grisham, Betsy Ross, Amelia Earhart RIP, US/UK Womens’ Soccer Rule 5, Occasional Cortex, Vintage Hollywood 4th Of July, Midsommar & Florence Pugh, Abigail Adams & Laura Linney, National Bikini Day, National Fried Chicken Day, and Christie Brinkley.

A View From The Beach has Maria Meinke, World Wide Angler, Celeb-rating the Fourth of July, Red, White, Blue Fish, Your Annual July 4th Scolding, Happy Fourth of July!, DNA Ties Philistines to the Greeks, 15 Year Old Beats Venus, Things to Consider BEFORE You Sell, “Something on Your Mind” and Just Another Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babes of the Week are Patriots. At Dustbury, it’s Marianne Williamson and Kirsten Vangsness.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!


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Munchausen Mom Wendy Napoles and the ‘Princess by Proxy’ Syndrome

Posted on | July 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

Wendy Napoles (left) and her drag-queen son Desmond.

Last December, after it was reported that 11-year-old Desmond Napoles had performed in drag at a Brooklyn gay bar where adult men threw money at the child, I referenced the “emerging awareness” by which the Supreme Court had justified its ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (2003). If it is true, as the court majority implied, that homosexuality enjoys a quasi-sacred “civil rights” status protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, we must expect certain consequences, and while no one in 2003 predicted American bacha bazi, certainly in hindsight this seems a plausible result of Justice Kennedy’s “emerging awareness” doctrine.

This is unspeakably wicked, especially since Desmond’s mother Wendy has so enthusiastically encouraged her son’s perverse effeminacy. Like other mothers who have deliberately feminized their boys, Wendy Napoles seems to be engaged in a form of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, whereby parents (or other caretakers) seek attention for themselves by inducing medical problems in their children or others in their care. By pretending to rescue the victim from a fictitious disease, the parent (typically a mother) gains sympathy for herself. In the case of children like Jazz Jennings, whose mothers insist that their sons manifested “female” traits as mere toddlers, it seems as if raising their children to be transgender is a way for bored middle-class women to win the competition for having the Most Special Snowflake Child™ in school. Pay close attention to these stories, and you’ll notice certain patterns. The mother is the dominant influence, and the father is merely a background figure in the narrative — a passenger, as it were, in a family journey with his wife driving the vehicle. These mothers seem inordinately proud of their feminized sons, and eager to congratulate themselves on being excellent parents. So understanding! So progressive! So courageous!

 

Once you know what to look for, it’s easy to point out evidence that the mothers of such children are mentally ill:

The mother of Child Drag Queen Desmond Napoles is appalled that a convicted pedophile finds her son sexy and sexualized his performances.
Tom O’Carroll, convicted in the UK in 2006 for distributing child pornography, and former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) referred to Desmond in a blog post written last month as a “pretty young boy” and “sexy kid.”
“We do not approve of his statements & have written to wordpressdotcom several times but they have yet to remove it. It is highly inappropriate to speak of minors in this manner, said Wendy Napoles in a statement on Instagram. “What Tom O’Carroll has said is out of our control & we do not know him or associate with him or any other pedophiles or sex offenders.”
She then went on to criticize conservative media saying, “The Conservative press is currently accusing us of purposely attracting pedophiles & accusing the LGBTQ community of supporting this.”

How is a pedophile’s reaction to a pre-teen drag queen the fault of conservatives? This is some bizarre projection on the part of Wendy Napoles, whose attack on conservatives is obviously a tactic intended to rally support among her “progressive” allies and “the LGBTQ community,” even though some members of that community are appalled by the way she promotes her feminized son as a kind of bizarre trophy. As for Tom O’Carroll’s reaction, is it really any surprise that a notorious pedophile would be an enthusiastic fan of a child being celebrated as a public symbol of prepubescent homosexual identity?

Whatever else you may think of Desmond Napoles, it is obvious that his mother has always acted as the cheering audience for his performances and is now playing the role of stage mother, basking in the reflected “glory” (such as it is) of her son’s status as LGBT celebrity.

In January, after Desmond’s appearances on nation TV (and his much-criticized performance in a gay bar) had drawn public scrutiny, author Karen Kataline called Child Protective Services to report the Napoles family, and wrote a column explaining why:

During the height of “Toddlers and Tiaras” and the Jon Benet Ramsey story, I wrote a book about my own experience in child beauty pageants, and growing up as a “Princess by Proxy,” a term coined by Dr. Martina Cartwright in the foreword to the book.
I was put on the stage at the age of 3, but I didn’t understand my true feelings about that or how similar experiences affected my development until I was well into my 30s. By then, I had clinical experience as well, so I used my story of a “stage mother on steroids” who lived through me as a case study to offer my professional analysis of how the early sexualization of children damages their development. I hoped the book would be a cautionary tale as I saw a growing social trend with disturbingly similar pathology. . . .
The problem that screams out for education and intervention is bigger than the case of Desmond Napoles. Suddenly, we have numerous “drag kids”, including a 10-year-old boy from Canada who was photographed with a naked adult drag queen. There is a nationwide program called “Drag Queen Story Hour,” which sends adult drag queens to read stories to children ages 2 to 8 at public libraries around the country. To think all these stories aren’t related would be childishly naive.
We are being told to believe that children as young as 4 can “identify” as gay. Desmond’s parents claim that they recognized their son was gay at the age of 2. In fact, Desmond’s father admonishes himself for not knowing this five minutes after he was born. “He’s sitting there with a little smile on his face, posing for the camera… We should have known right then, but we didn’t,” he said.
When a parent lives through a child to that extent, the child in effect ceases to exist. The parent is unable to set proper boundaries to protect the child, because he can’t see any boundaries at all. It may appear that the parent is deeply involved and concerned about the child but in actuality, this is a form of neglect.
Some parents who believe they have recognized their child’s gender identity have even given them “cross gender hormones” to distort or retard their natural sexual development.
Advocates for these extreme measures have also pushed the idea of “gender fluidity.” If gender is so fluid, why are parents changing it or locking it in for young children with irreversible procedures? Is gender fluidity only for adults, and not for children? The term itself seeks to normalize gender dysphoria but if gender is fluid at all, one would think it would be in childhood when the psyche is most impressionable. The flurry of drag queen stories are targeted at those children. . . .

You can read the rest. Indeed, this disturbing phenomenon very much resembles the Toddlers & Tiaras trend that most adults found horrifying. Or for that matter, Dance Moms, with that awful Abby Lee Miller bullying girls to the point of tears. Making children a mere instrument of parental ambition should always bother us. Parents want their children to grow up to be happy and successful, and different parents have different ideas of what constitutes happiness and success, but turning your son into a juvenile celebrity drag queen? No, that’s crazy. It’s sick.

What causes the “stage mother” problem in child beauty pageants? Martina Cartwright examined the phenomenon:

The answer lies in a condition known as “Achievement by Proxy Distortion.” (ABPD). Benign ABP occurs when the adult’s pride and satisfaction are achieved when supporting the child’s development and abilities. In benign ABP, coaches, parents and other involved adults actively cheer on the child and provide emotional support and reasonable financial assistance. The parents are aware of the child’s limitations and would allow the child to stop the activity if the child became disinterested, injured or exploited.
The pathogenic form of ABPD is a phenomenon by which the social and/or financial gains of the child’s achievements become the adults’ primary goals. ABPD is often associated with child athletes, however, I believe some pageant parents exhibit a unique form of ABPD I call “Princess by Proxy.” (PBP).

Just as with Desmond’s mother, who insists that this whole drag-queen thing is his own idea, so also do mothers of child beauty pageant contestants claim that it’s their daughters, and not themselves, whose ambitions are on display. The parent is so emotionally invested in the child’s performance that they are unable to distinguish between their own needs and those of the child, so that a sort of psychological projection occurs, where the parent ascribes to the child emotions that the parent feels: “She loves it!” And if a girl is told from the time she is 3 how much she “loves” beauty pageants, she is likely to internalize her mother’s enthusiasm. It’s like children raised by Scientologists, who never think to question the lunatic teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

Of course, New York’s Child Protective Services agency did not intervene in the case of Desmond Napoles. How could they? In a state where the “gay rights” agenda is considered sacred, no one can prevent parents from deliberately encouraging their children to be homosexual. Indeed, parents in New York would be more likely to be investigated if they tried to discourage their children from being gay. This, you see, is all a predictable consequence of the Lawrence v. Texas decision and its core doctrine of “emerging awareness.” Once it was decided that sodomy was a constitutionally protected right, it was only a matter of time before this was extended into childhood, and no one is permitted to object.



 

Category: Gays

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | July 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

Accused rapist Temar Bishop.

CNN and MSNBC haven’t mentioned this hate crime for some reason:

A black parolee arrested for raping and bashing a white woman on the roof of his Bronx apartment building allegedly told a witness that she “deserved” the brutal attack because of slavery, according to court papers.
“She was a white girl. She deserved it because us minorities have been through slavery,” Temar Bishop, 23, allegedly said to someone who witnessed the bloodied 20-year-old woman after the assaults, according to a criminal complaint.
“This is what they used to do to us. This is what they did to us during slavery. They used to beat us and whip us.”
Temar Bishop, 23, was arrested by authorities [June 14] in Virginia on a slew of charges connected to the early morning June 1 assault, which officials have deemed a hate crime, according to authorities.
The 20-year-old met Bishop — who was on parole after serving just over a year behind bars for robbery — around 5 a.m. and joined him on the rooftop of the public housing building on Alexander Avenue near East 137th Street in Mott Haven, police said.
Bishop allegedly punched her repeatedly before raping her, then continued his assault — kicking and punching her in the head and body until she fell unconscious, cops said.
He then fled, but returned with the unnamed witness — who saw the woman “laying on the roof landing with blood covering her face” — and then allegedly made the remarks about slavery, court documents say.
The woman was treated at an area hospital for several injuries, including a broken nose and broken teeth. She was also “vomiting blood,” the complaint states.
Police sources previously told The Post a Special Victims Division investigator described the attack as “one of the worst he’s ever seen.”
Bishop was charged with two counts of predatory sexual assault, attempted murder, rape, two counts of assault, sexual abuse, assault and a hate crime.

Why should Democrats wait to vote for reparations in the primaries, when they can just enact their own personal reparations program? All they have to do is go to the Bronx at 5 a.m. and . . .



 

Category: Violence Against Women

Fertility Clinic Funhouse

Posted on | July 7, 2019 | Comments Off on Fertility Clinic Funhouse

 

People who trust science to solve their fertility problems put their faith in the expertise of medical professionals. What could possibly go wrong? Lots, it turns out. There was Dr. Norman Barwin, the Canadian fertility doctor who was recently reprimanded “for inseminating at least 11 women with his own sperm and giving the wrong sperm to dozens more women beginning in the 1970s.” There was Dr. Jan Karbaat, the Dutch fertility doctor who “secretly used his own sperm to inseminate patients without their consent and father 49 children.” And there was Dr. Donald Cline, the Indiana fertility doctor who fathered at least 50 children by secretly inseminating patients with his own sperm.

Then there was the case of the Ohio lesbian couple, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon, who chose a blue-eyed blond-haired sperm donor (No. 380) for their IVF procedure. Instead, the clinic accidently used a black sperm donor (No. 330 — oops!), so they sued the clinic.

Being an enthusiastic proponent of the old-fashioned method of procreation, I’m not much impressed with the high-tech approach. Why put yourself at the mercy of scientific “experts” in a laboratory to accomplish what two teenagers can usually do in the backseat of a Buick with no more medical assistance than a four-pack of wine coolers?

Now comes the latest sad tale of fertility-clinic misadventures:

A Queens couple that tried for years to get pregnant suffered the mother of all mix-ups once they finally succeeded — giving birth to someone else’s babies, thanks to a bungling Los Angeles fertility clinic, a stunning new lawsuit claims.
Married in 2012, the Asian husband and wife — identified in court papers only as Y.Z. and A.P. — turned to CHA Fertility Center, when their countless attempts, both natural and with artificial insemination, failed.
Run by Dr. Joshua Berger and co-owner Simon Hong, the clinic boasts that it’s a “mecca of reproductive medicine” that has “fulfilled the dreams of tens of thousands of aspiring parents from Southern California and beyond in over 22 countries.”
With hope in mind, the Flushing couple made the trip West in January 2018 to meet with Berger and Hong, and eventually underwent a months-long regimen of medicines, vitamins, tests and procedures that yielded eight embryos.
In all, they spent $100,000 on facility, specialist and doctors fees, medication, lab expenses and travel costs, the couple claimed.
In July 2018, A.P. attempted to have an embryo implanted at the Los Angeles facility, but it didn’t work, the couple said in its Brooklyn federal court lawsuit.
A month later, they were ready to try again, and CHA thawed two of the couple’s female embryos for another attempt.
By September, A.P. was pregnant.
The two “were ecstatic to learn that after years of trying to conceive, they had success and were pregnant with twins,” according to court papers.
But subsequent sonograms showed something wasn’t right.
Ultrasound technicians kept telling the couple that A.P. was carrying twin boys, prompting the “confused” pair called CHA to find out why.
The doctor and clinic owner “assured [A.P. and Y.Z.] that they were having girls and that nothing was wrong.”
On March 30, 2019, A.P. went to a New York hospital. The next day, she gave birth via a cesarean section.
Both babies were boys — and neither shared Y.Z. and A.P.’s Asian ethnicity, the couple charges.
CHA personnel, including Hong, flew to New York to conduct genetic tests that confirmed the newborns weren’t genetically related to Y.Z. and A.P.
“The testing also confirmed that the two male babies were not genetically related to each other,” the couple alleges.
Y.Z. and A.P. were then forced to give custody of each infant to their respective biological parents, who were also clients of CHA.

But sure, trust science. The “experts” know what they’re doing, right?



 

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