QUESTION! SHOULD AUGUSTA ROMAN GET CUSTODY OF HER EMBRYOS

Augusta's picure above



Her ex husband Randy!

A custody battle is brewing between Augusta Roman and her ex husband for custody of her frozen fertilized embryos. Her ex-husband does not want her to have the babies and Augusta who is originally from Nigeria and who is 47 years old feels this is her last chance to have kids!

In the divorce she got the house, now the question of the right to have the embryos has been taken to the US Supreme court. This could set a precedence, what are your thoughts everyone? Should she get custody?

According to the LATIMES "Augusta wanted to take possession and have them implanted, agreeing to release Randy from any financial or parental obligation. Randy wanted the embryos destroyed, or at least frozen indefinitely. He argued that even though he did not want to raise children with Augusta, he would never disavow his genetic offspring. As he would point out in court, the couple had initialed a cryopreservation consent form stipulating that should they divorce, any frozen embryos "shall be discarded."

Roman vs. Roman now rests with the Supreme Court of Texas, one of a number of divorce cases nationwide in which the custody dispute has revolved around microscopic clumps of cells that are considered — by most states, at least — to be property and not human life.
A former bodybuilder, Augusta met her future husband at a local gym in 1996. Randy Roman was an aerospace technician who had moved to Texas from Northern California. Both were in their mid-30s and ready to settle down. They shared a desire to start a family and a common Christian faith — or thought they did.

They married after a brief courtship, and Augusta acceded to her husband's suggestion that they wait two years before trying to have children. They bought a house that came ready-made with a girl's room papered in pink and a boy's room decorated with animal prints. When they did start trying, she got pregnant quickly, but miscarried 10 weeks later. After an additional six months of fruitless attempts, doctors determined that Augusta had a fertility problem, and she began round after round of treatments.

On the night before the scheduled embryo transfer, the couple went out for Chinese food. Upon returning home, Augusta changed into her nightgown and settled in to watch the news. That is when Randy told her they needed to talk, and presented her with a handwritten bill of complaints. Foremost was his claim that he perceived her as being "hostile to God."

These are my kids," Augusta said. "It's almost like I was pregnant and somebody says I have to give them up because he doesn't want to be a father, so get an abortion because he's changed his mind."

Randy counters that Augusta's position would reduce the legal standing of men in in vitro fertilization cases to that of mere sperm donors. "If I am the biological father of a child, I could not bear the emotional consequences of being forced out of my child's life by a court order," he testified.

He questions why Augusta has been so persistent, given her low odds of getting pregnant even if she wins."

Is it me or does the husband seem mean? She was already in her mid 30's when they got married! Yet he wanted her to wait two years? What do you say readers?