{"id":286862,"date":"2023-03-07T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=286862"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:43:08","slug":"youtuber-history-sexualizing-infants-12-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/youtuber-history-sexualizing-infants-12-embryos\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No background checks’: YouTuber who sexualized infants ‘buys’ 12 children through IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A notorious YouTuber has begun the surrogacy process with his fianc\u00e9, but past behavior and comments he has made about the embryos have some concerned about the well-being of the children he is creating.<\/p>\n

Shane Dawson and his fianc\u00e9, Ryland Adams, have begun speaking about the process, with Adams appearing<\/a> on “The Sip” podcast with cohost Lizzie Gordon. “We finally looked into, like, we started the process of trying to figure it out, and even with, like, a surrogacy agency, the waitlist is 18 to 36 months if you start today,” Adams said. “And that’s not the only stop. Then you also have to have a fertility clinic \u2014 that’s where you find the egg \u2014 and then you also have to find the surrogacy, then you have all the legal work.”<\/p>\n

CONTENT WARNING: Disturbing quotes below may be particularly upsetting for readers.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

IVF and playing God<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a video from March of 2022, the couple joked<\/a> about hitting “purchase” on a surrogacy contract, saying how they would tell their future kids, “We bought your mommy!”<\/p>\n

Since then, the couple announced that their embryo retrieval process has started, and they had created 12 embryos altogether \u2014 each man has six children. In another video, posted two weeks ago, they went public with the results \u2014 joking about which embryos to keep, and which to destroy. (Emphasis added below.)<\/p>\n