Here in (country) everyone on the left hates surrogacy with a burning passion, since it involves rich people essentially buying babies and using the bodies of poor women for their own benefit. Even the right wing parties feel sliiightly uncomfortable discussing said topics (with the exception of the extremely liberal ones who also love to act all european and modern).

Even sitcoms such as Friends or Always Sunny in Philadelphia had plotlines where this happened and they didn't pointed out how some rich fuck was taking advantage of a poor person. (Well, it was a sitcom so the poor person was either an asshole or doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but you get the picture: whitewashing surrogacy is also bad).

So yeah, what's the deal with that? No one points out how fucked up it is???

  • Pog_De_Maistre [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The american left (or let's be honest, the queer university-adjacent left that's predominantly in NYC, Philly, and the Bay Area) tends to be more friendly towards it. There's "Full Surrogacy Now" which tends to be positive on it from a family abolitionist perspective and argues for a right to surrogacy.

    I'd recommend trying to familiarize oneself with the arguments before shitting on it. Personally I haven't read it yet so I'm not going to claim to support/oppose the argument of the book

    https://www.versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now