- Australian publisher Spinifex has just published this superb collection of essays against surrogacy. Fifteen feminists, scientists, LGBT+ activists and other experts in the field have combined to produce a highly informative and persuasive argument against this horrendous exploitation of downtrodden women by childless wealthy couples and singles, including gays.
- Surrogacy is not an issue frequently in the news, particularly in Australia. It's an unfamiliar moral terrain, so this book will hopefully go a long way to rectifying that intellectual laziness and apathy.
- Surrogacy is a rapidly growing corporate enterprise around the world, particularly in India, Russia, Ukraine, and in US states like California and New York. The majority of Australian states allow non-commercial surrogacy, but worldwide Big Fertility and Big Pharmacy are successfully persuading childless couples, some gay organisations, and legislators to support the commercialisation of it.
- It’s becoming normalised, which is horrendous as it’s the modern equivalent of slavery.
- This extract from biologist and social scientist Dr Renate Klein's essay summarises the issue passionately:
Whatever way we look at surrogacy, there is only one conclusion: surrogacy in all its forms - for money or love - is a fundamental human rights violation of the birth mother, the egg provider, and the resulting child (if there is one). Surrogacy is a deeply unethical, exploitative and callous way of reducing women to breeders: we are nothing but empty vessels or spare parts providers to produce children as commodities for those with the power to pay. And then to be cast aside - never to see our child again. It is obvious that we have to abolish surrogacy. All of it. And everywhere in the world.
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