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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the record, I don’t think most American surrogates are poor. They are usually women who had easy pregnancies and births and see it as nbd to do another one, help a family and make money in the process. A win win for everyone involved — that is, until something goes wrong. I only point this out because everyone seems to be equating “surrogate” with “poor person.”

And let’s also remember that gay men use surrogates too and it works well for a lot of families who have no other way of having biological kids. I would hate to think a loving gay couple couldn’t work with a surrogate and have a bio kid, with the right protection in place for both sides of the agreement.[/quote]

Whatever you need to tell yourself to whitewash the exploitation of women through surrogacy, which is otherwise recognized worldwide. You are telling yourself a myth, not unlike the myth of the saintly relinquishing mother in adoptive circles. Doesn’t it bother you even the slightest that the country with the worst maternal health outcomes is also literally the only one that permits commercial surrogacy? Do you consider yourself otherwise in favor of women’s health and safety? Doesn’t it bother you at all that this is seen as explicit exploitation globally?

As for gay men, well that is just business as as usual: when the desires of men conflict with the health and wellbeing of women, men prevail. Men being gay doesn’t give them a free pass to exploit women. [/quote]

Surrogacy isn’t going anywhere in the US.  Your perspective is irrelevant. [/quote]

Don’t be so sure about that. As more stories like this and others emerge, support will drop. It already is dropping.

The other voices that are starting to rise are those of the children born of surrogacy. Like adoption before it, those born of surrogacy are reaching adulthood and are starting to understand just what happened for them to exist. And many of them are angry and horrified. It is very similar to what happened with the history of exploitative adoption in this country. It was the children who eventually organized and forced legislative changes. They are organizing now.

I think it is going to be eventually highly restricted here. Probably not outright banned, but possibly. And, that’s the right outcome. [/quote]

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