But artificial insemination in a lesbian does occur... and it's even possible fo her partner to act as another parent. Unless you're suggesting that adopted parents are not really parents and parentage is based purely on genes.
I really don't follow the whole nature argument.
Either something is possible or it's not. Regardless of whether nature "intended" it.
I don't see any validity to nature-based arguments. Nature has nothing to do with morality... and apparently not much to do with potential.

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Neither do I. Just because science can do something doesn't mean it is "natural". Remember 6 million Jews were killed with gas - everything created from "nature". But just because it can be done, does not make it morally right. If you used that argument in all cases, no crime, no abuse, nothing would be morally wrong. And that is simply not logical.

There is no shortage of babies in this world, and they were all made the same way babies have been made for millions of years. Frankly, allowing a lesbian to be artificially inseminated seem to be unethical. Nature has a system for correcting mistakes that are created by accident. I see no purpose in allowing defective humans to propagate by unnatural means.

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I see your point, but by the same measure, I see no harm in allowing them to. Especially since the "defect" in question is simply sexual orientation and not some kind of mental or physical defect that actually keeps a human being from operating.
I don't understand why any human couple that can't propogate should have artificial insemination rather than adopting a child that needs a home and parents... But if we draw that line, it should not apply only to gay couples but for all who require artificial means to reproduce.

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artificial insemination does not occur from one lesbian to the next. One lesbian can not produce sperm to impregnate her partner. They need a male to enter the picture. Two females can not create a pregnancy. That's the point, two women getting pregnant is impossible without a male. Thus unnatural.

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It is not doing anything that nature does not do every day on its own. However, doing so with lesbians does do something that nature has never in the history of the world done.

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pacemakers, immunization shots, transplants even going around in a wheelchair. Those are "unnatural" also.

What are you talking about? A lesbian can get pregnant just as a woman with a husband who cannot get someone pregnant can. It is equally possible.

Are you claiming parenting units have to mimic the nature of a couple that physically could have a kid? That could be your philosophy but it's more like pagan nature-worship rationalization than anything approaching science.

Humans capable of reproduction can reproduce. Any human can adopt. People can reproduce and one taking part can give up parental rights and someone else can take over those rights.
As far as the marraige and parenting models of society being natural? Doubtful. They're convenient social constructions. Men are naturally promiscuous creatures and prior to modern civilization children were raised communally. Nobody seems to be suggesting a return to that kind of nature.

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A lesbian can not get pregnant from another woman...no man can impregnate another man. However men impregnate women all the time. One occurs naturally all the time the other does not.

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SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

Giving birth to children and raising them are two completely seperate phenomena.
The woman is still technically made pregnant by a man, as is any woman who is artificially inseminated.

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They shouldn't be...we don't need a country where we run baby factories. As much as possible babies should be raised by the parents. But the bottom line is one action (women being inseminated by men) is nothing more than correcting a defect, illness, etc and replicating something that happens every day in nature. The other is replicating something that never happens. That being making same sex parents. There are no same sex parents in nature because that isn't how parenthood was intended.

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Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.