Sofía Vergara ex-fiancé: Our frozen embryos have a right to live http://t.co/fmKqyaOEqN via @NYTOpinionpic.twitter.com/mB7CWwdYZH
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 30, 2015-The New York Times inexplicably agreed to publish an op-ed by Nick Loeb, Sofía Vergara’s former fiancé and current stalker.
-In 2013, they both signed a contract stating that the embryos could only be brought to term if both parties consented. However, it "did not specify — as California law requires — what would happen if [they] separated", so he wants to have it voided.
-He offered to waive Sofia's parental & financial responsibilities and have her declared an egg donor if she would let him have the embryos, she refused. He believes that Sofia's wish to keep the embryos frozen indefinitely is tantamount to killing them.
-"I wanted to keep this private", so writing a NY Times op-ed was the logical next step.
-Cites two cases where women were awarded custody of frozen embryos over the objections of their former partners. However, both rulings hinged on the fact that the women were cancer survivors and the embryos were their only shot at having biological children. Loeb doesn't claim to be infertile & there's hardly a shortage of women who don't love themselves, so it can't be argued that these embryos are his last chance at biological parenthood.
-Tells a sob story about barely knowing his own parents, which made him "yearn for the type of family based on the images one might see in a Norman Rockwell painting"
-Does not explain how he reconciles his belief that embryos are sacred with his willingness to use in vitro fertilization
