Mitt Romney’s Eldest Son Has Twins Via Surrogate

[cali]

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O’HARA, Pa. – Tagg Romney, the eldest son of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, announced via Twitter that he and his wife Jen have new twin boys, delivered by a surrogate today.

“Happy 2 announce birth of twin boys David Mitt and William Ryder. Big thanks to our surrogate. Life is a miracle,” Tagg tweeting, linking to a photo of himself and one of his new sons.

This the second time that Tagg, 42, and his wife, Jen,39, have used a surrogate. The same surrogate was used for the twins carried their youngest son Jonathan, who was born in August of 2010. Their other three children were not born via surrogacy.

On Facebook, Tagg gave even more details about the birth, confirming that the twins are his biological children. “Jen and I are happy to announce the birth of twin boys, David Mitt and William Ryder,” he wrote. “Everyone is healthy and happy. They weighed in at 5 lbs 13 oz and 19-3/4 inches and 6 lbs. 13 oz and 19 inches. A special thanks to our gestational surrogate who made this possible for us. Life truly is a miracle, and we feel so blessed to be able to celebrate the arrival of these precious boys into our family. For those keeping score at home, these are grandchildren numbers 17 and 18 for my parents.”

According to the official handbook of the Church of Latter Day Saints, to which the Romney’s are members, surrogacy is not encouraged. “The Church strongly discourages surrogate motherhood,” the handbook reads.

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[treestar]

1. At least the kids get normal names

"Tagg" sounds like something Sarah Palin's kid would be named.

[cali]

2. they had three kids normally. why the hell did they need three more so badly

they hired a surrogate?

[Warpy]

5. There are a lot of reasons for it

none of which are our business.

[siligut]

57. Warpy, I almost always agree with you

But when it comes to a Mormon presidential nominee, we have to examine what effect his religion would have on his ability to perform his job. OK, this is assuming that the reason for a large family is because of religion. Maybe it isn't, but I am willing to bet it is.

[FreeState]

62. Romneys adult son is not running - nor does his father

Decide how he has children - that's my guess.

Seriously, who cares? There are so many issues with Romney to pick on, his adult kids choices of how to conceive a family seems silly and misguided in a big way.

[Hippo_Tron]

69. When Mitt Romney decides that women's reproductive decisions are none of his business...

I'll decide that the reproductive decisions of his family members, that actively campaign for him, are none of my business.

[LeftyMom]

13. Secondary infertility happens.

[Sedona]

37. If I had the money to pay

someone else to carry my three children I would have. IMHO being pregnant and child birth suck big time. I might have missed the enjoyment and bonding of breast feeding though.

[blueamy66]

42. so that they can reach the top level of heaven

gotta have a boatload of kids to get to the best Mormon heaven....

[siligut]

56. Overpopulation? Mormons have no concern.

Population control is for the gentiles. Mormons have to populate whole planets after they leave this Earth.

[blueamy66]

58. I just don't get it.

I know "live and let live" but quit with the kids for cripes's sake.

[siligut]

61. Large families are one way to increase membership/revenue/power

I agree with you about live and let live, but the Mormons are taught to believe they need to insinuate themselves into our lives. They believe theirs is the only true religion and lack respect for others and their beliefs. I never felt so negative about a religion until I lived and worked in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[blueamy66]

64. There are ALOT of Mormons here in AZ.

I grew up with them and have worked with them and have "family" that are Mormon.

I don't agree with most of their beliefs, but can kinda understand them. They do take care of eachother.

I was at my sister in law's parents' house one Sunday when the missionaries came over to talk. I sat there with my newborn great nephew in my lap and listened and then told them I was raised Catholic and went to 13 yrs of Catholic school and respect their beliefs but don't agree with their teachings and think that they do not value women. They just looked at me with big eyes and I got up and left the room with the baby. Interesting....

A friend of mine was engaged to a Mormon guy who had just returned from his mission. She sat down with me and another friend and asked us what she was supposed to do on her wedding night. This was a 22 yr old woman. It was kinda fun.......

[customerserviceguy]

44. They're Mormons

They believe that the more children a man has, the higher the level of afterlife they achieve. In the "good old days" that used to be with multiple wives, now they have to do it with one wife, and as many surrogates as they can afford to hire.

[treestar]

50. Interesting thought

How the surrogate sort of makes up for the lost multiple wives!

[customerserviceguy]

60. Yeah, got the idea

from a Mormon friend of mine who's been married about four times. Each time, he got "sealed for all time and eternity" to a woman, but if he divorced her, and she wanted to remarry that way, she'd have to get a special dispensation from the church, which required his permission. I remarked that it seemed like serial polygamy, and he didn't object to my calling it that.

[FreeState]

63. This is 100% false n/t

[customerserviceguy]

72. What's false?

That they're not Mormons, or that there isn't some belief in number-of-spirit-babies determines level-of-heaven? I can find proof for the latter, although it may not be sold as hard as it was in the olden days.

[Capt. Obvious]

49. Mormon church ain't growing through converts

[yortsed snacilbuper]

12. Tagg and ted nugent are hunting partners!

[notadmblnd]

32. Oh yeah? The elephant mutilating one?

[rsmith6621]

3. His Son Will Get A Church Promotion Now

....I guess TWO more MOONS as well..... GREED nice that the silver spoon Mitts son was born with that they can afford to do that....

[Aerows]

4. They discourage surrogate motherhood?

I guess that makes sense. Why have a surrogate when you can just add a wife?

[IcyPeas]

6. wouldn't this offend evangelicals?

if they can't conceive naturally isn't that what god wants. I hope they don't have sex for pleasure now.

[cali]

7. they did concieve naturally. they have 3 kids born the old fashioned way.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. Oh god. He loses the Catholic Bishops vote.

[Ian David]

9. Is this how they cover-up an extramarital affair or a second wife? n/t

[Bobcat]

10. Surrogate?

Very insightful! How soon before the fundies start asking this quesrion?

[Sedona]

39. in 3...2...1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880002/posts

[Historic NY]

43. The Freepers must have thought they used a turkey baster...

[groundloop]

70. WOW - the love is certainly thick in freeperville

It is kind of an entertaining read.

[kestrel91316]

11. I am assuming the "surrogate" is a sister wife. #2.

[riderinthestorm]

33. Yup, I agree. This is a sister wife. I hope the media really digs on this. nt

[CTyankee]

66. So the "surrogate" had sex with Tagg?

Just wondering about the definition of "sister wife" here...

[kestrel91316]

71. "Sister wife" is Mormon-speak for a plural wife in a

polygamous marriage.

[Sedona]

38. Nice catch!

[LeftyMom]

14. Good for them.

Let's not politicize a personal family matter. We're better than that, right?

[riderinthestorm]

15. Of course Mitt's been totally hands off OTHER'S personal family decisions....

Mitt rMoney is all about telling OTHER families what the hell to do with their pregnancies...

... so why is his family suddenly off limits?


http://jezebel.com/5875237/compassionate-mitt-romney-told-unmarried-woman-shed-go-to-hell-if-she-kept-her-baby


Or his injection of his own personal vendetta against women and their doctors, who want the same personal family planning choices for themselves in regards to abortion (or not).

[LeftyMom]

17. Yeah, getting in other people's crotches sucks. So we shouldn't.

"But he did it first!" is an excuse for five year olds.

[riderinthestorm]

25. Personal family planning choices in this country have LONG gone by the wayside

with the right's war on privacy about a woman's health care choices.

Mitt wants things both ways. In a presidential election that's bullshit.

When it comes to Mitt's family it's "personal". When it comes to others' families its okay for government intrusion?

Sorry, no way. Publicly this does not get a pass when the hypocrisy is so blatant.

[LeftyMom]

29. So you're going to intrusive and judgmental views of other people's family formation.

I guess that's one way to go, but aside from it being exactly what we're trying to prevent, does it strike you as the kind and decent thing to do?

[riderinthestorm]

34. Politics is not kind or decent. If the Edwards trial, or rMoney's attack on Obama @ Bin Ladin

hasn't persuaded you then I could point you to a plethora of past insensitive bullshit.

rMoney's sons have endorsed the killing of OTHER people's children in Iraq and Afghanistan while declining to go themselves. They aren't "kind" or "decent" by that fact alone.

[LeftyMom]

36. Wow.

I think I'm going to put you on ignore, because if you're that eager to beat the Republicans in a race to the moral bottom, I really don't want to hear about it.

[riderinthestorm]

40. Ignore away! Complaining that we're beating up on the rMoney's sister wife

because we're at the "moral bottom" is fine with me. You won't be the first or last so go right ahead.

[Butterbean]

59. Thank you. You said exactly what I was thinking. All of it.

[FSogol]

16. I agree. Thousands of reasons to disapprove of Mitt without involving his grandkids. n/t

[LeftyMom]

18. Or kicking his daughter in law while she's down.

Life is hard enough for a Mormon woman with a fertility issue.

[cali]

20. fertility issues? She had three kids.

and I'm not knocking Mitt's grandchildren. I'm knocking his adult son.

[LeftyMom]

23. As I said, it's secondary infertility.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=secondary+infertility

If she had a medical issue that precluded getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term again, she's infertile. Have a heart.

[riderinthestorm]

26. They are not infertile. They have 3 children. They are entering their 40s and it's not uncommon

for anyone to experience a loss of childbearing capability in that age range.

These are just greedy mofos who wanted more children. In spite of their church's dictates against this type of insemination, they've become cafeteria Mormons and decided to bypass church rules.

THAT is news, especially when Rethugs want to dictate family planning for everyone else. Especially when its religiously oriented

[cali]

52. How do you know she has secondary infertility?

[riderinthestorm]

22. She does not have a fertility issue! They have 3 children already! nt

[LeftyMom]

24. Yes she does. Nobody has a surrogate pregnancy for fun.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=secondary+infertility

Please show these people some compassion. Politics aside, infertility sucks.

[riderinthestorm]

27. This is not infertility! They have 3 children already!

Please stop trying to conflate REAL infertility with this. The rMoney's are simply getting older and finding it's more difficult to conceive. They are 39 and 42 years old. Sometimes that happens.

The pain of real infertility is NOT this and having known couples in their early 20s who discover their infertility and really have dealt with that pain, this is nothing like that. This is a wealthy, older couple who simply want to fulfill the Mormon ideal of a big family (despicably, against all environmental warnings) who have access to a young woman and the best medical care to keep up the church's ridiculous dictates.

[LeftyMom]

35. She was 37 for the last one.

Maybe she had to have a hysterectomy or something, I'd assume so because that's really early to not be able to get pregnant anymore, especially with three successful pregnancies before that. It's not easy for a woman who can't have more kids in a culture that places such an emphasis on that, especially if she had no reason to expect it.

I wouldn't have six kids for love or money, but if they wanted to I'm glad they had the option. Let it go.

[riderinthestorm]

41. When or IF Rethugs let women choose their OWN family planning

then I will let it go.

Until then, I call them out on ALL hypocrisy when it comes to family decision making (and especially when it concerns their moral or religious hypocrisy, or the lack thereof)

[cali]

51. uh, fertile women do indeed use surrogates

and what the fuck does compassion have to do with it? I don't know that they used a surrogate because of infertility and neither do you. Even if they did, there are plenty of kids to be adopted in this country. They have three of their own.

Fuck the Romneys.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. I find it kind of strange that we are all about choice until someone we don't like

exercises their choice.

Congratulations to the Romney family and I hope the babies thrive.

[cali]

21. I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it.

see the difference? It's pretty flippin' obvious.

[rustydog]

28. Good for them, but what about God's will? maybe they were not meant to have more

[cherokeeprogressive]

31. Conversely, maybe it was God's will that they WERE to have more, and surrogacy was the only way.

[cali]

48. how about adoption?

[notadmblnd]

30. A surrogate or a second wife?

They have 3 other children so infertility wasn't the problem.

[Chorophyll]

54. You don't actually know that.

Infertility can happen at any point, for any number of reasons.

[notadmblnd]

65. I did not state it as fact. You can tell by the punctuation.

. = a statement. ?= a question. Anything else?

[Chorophyll]

68. I didn't see a question mark in the body of your message.

I just think speculating on other people's reproductive choices is best left to the Republicans. But whatever, pal.

[lynne]

45. Congratulations to them -

- as I feel that a family addition is a reason for celebration.

Leave children and grandchildren out of the political sniping. We want and expect that same treatment for the Obama family. If we don't practice what we preach then . . . well . . . we're the very same as "them".

[demtenjeep]

46. they have the means to love and support them more power to them.

I'm not going to be undecent.

[cali]

53. They have the means to adopt children who need a home.

[no_hypocrisy]

47. If the Obamas had opted for surrogacy, Rush would be trumpeting "baby buying".

[Bucky]

55. That's actually pretty nice news. I hope the kids grow up to be Democrats

But even Republican babies are cute.

[11 Bravo]

67. Because stretch marks are for the little people.

[Major Hogwash]

73. Mormons don't believe in oral sex either.

So, that's not good for the rest of the nation.
Because Romney sucks!!