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Most who seek surrogacy overseas, which is now punishable by jail terms and fines, are heterosexual couples
Most who seek surrogacy overseas, which is now punishable by jail terms and fines, are heterosexual couples
You’re paying some impoverished exploited person to destroy her body giving birth so you can take away her baby… in a world on the verge of resource collapse with 8 billion humans boiling alive and countless orphans, the rich have found yet another scheme to make things worse.
EDIT: medically illiterate morons in this thread arguing that giving birth should be commodified. Fuck. You.
What do you think about “altruistic surrogacy”, mentioned in the article? Presumably if someone is volunteering that avoids the exploitation angle?
Approaching from another angle, do you think sex work should be legal? It’s another area where exploitation and abuse are a concern. But if we expect someone can earn money using their body in one area (sex work, or even just physical labor) then why should it be illegal to earn money by carrying a baby to term? Exploitation should be made illegal, not the act itself.
Lastly, my understanding is that surrogacy is more often used when a woman is unable to carry the baby, than when a man is unable to impregnate.
I hear you that rich people are selfish and causing any number of problems. That said, I think your approach misses the suffering of many normal people who want to raise a child and would be unable to otherwise.
Even if this was an activity that someone thinks should be restricted, should it be punishable with jail time? I don’t think so. The law in Italy seems clearly designed to target LGBT people.
Volunteering is fine, paying is not. There’s consensus in the philosophical literature that commodified surrogacy is immoral.
People use their bodies for work, true. The difference when it comes to giving birth is that
Regarding sex work, you’re right; it’s so profitable and ubiquitous that making it illegal creates a black market, which is one of the main sources of harm for that industry; legalizing and regulating it makes it less exploitative and dangerous. The opposite is true for surrogacy, which is neither ubiquitous nor profitable (hence the exploitation of poor foreign girls).
I think it’s a strange position to take that giving birth is like handling radioactive material.
Yes, giving birth is a major medical event, one that is quantifiably more harmful than losing a kidney. Is this news to you? Are you a moron or a psychopath?
You’re being rude for no reason
Your stupidity offends me.
You raise some good points in here and down below. I’m wondering if people have to go through all the trouble to have someone else conceive a child, why not just adopt? No one has to risk their health and you’d be giving a child a (hopefully) better life.
If people cared about children, they would adopt, but they are selfish and have an obsession with passing on their own shitty genes.