s centre lie two competing notions of rights. The liberal argument for surrogacy — as with assisted dying or prostitution — is that a woman can do with her body what she wishes. But surrogacy is freighted with power and privilege: did any wealthy woman ever birth a child for a poorer family? Whether from Mexico’s favelas or Manchester’s council estates, women are not gestational vessels for the rich.
At the Modern Family Show surrogacy expo, mentioned above, I was struck by how the women (vital to the whole process obv) were barely mentioned Except to say they were all health checked & told to stay off recreational drugs etc. ie good breeding stock. Pure Handmaid’s Tale
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