Madonna Responds To Dolce And Gabbana's Controversial Remarks About IVF
Posted on Thu Mar 19th, 2015 7:14am PDT By X17 Staff
Madonna may have butted heads with Elton John in the past, but she's totally on his side now in the fight against designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana for their shocking comments about IVF.
If you're not familiar with the story, it all started when the D&G boys chatted with Italy's Panorama magazine and slammed gay adoptions, remarking that children created via IVF were "synthetic." Elton, who has two children born via surrogate with husband David Furnish, wrote on Sunday on his Instagram account, "How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic.' And shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children."
Elton then asked his famous friends to boycott the fashion label, and though Ricky Martin and Courtney Love came through, on Monday the "Tiny Dancer" singer was photographed carrying a D&G shopping bag. Oops! A rep for Elton told E! News, "Yes he was carrying the bag but he hadn't been shopping. And it should not detract from their original message or the boycott." Hmm, we're not buying it...
After watching Elton and D&G go back and forth, Madonna chimed in on Wednesday night by sharing a photo on Instagram of her ad for D&G's Fall/Winter 2010 collection in which she's lying on a bed with a baby in her arms. The queen of pop wrote:
- "All babies contain a soul however they come to this earth and their families. There is nothing synthetic about a soul!! So how can we dismiss IVF and surrogacy? Every soul comes to us to teach us a lesson. God has his hand in everything even technology! We are arrogant to think Man does anything on his own. As above so below! Think before you speak #livingforlove."
And there you have it!