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???
With the new family code, Cuba also allows non-commercial surrogacy and continues to disallow commercial surrogacy. I find it interesting that the Wikipedia summary tables for LGBT rights - which basically serves as a checklist of how friendly a country is - includes commercial surrogacy. It just feels so market-brained to think that it's "the next step" for gay liberation. :shrug-outta-hecks:
I can see how you could consider it a liberating thing for gay people but in this case it is a liberation at the expense of the exploitation of another
non-commercial surrogacy is a thing in Portugal and apprently there were only like 2 cases in the last 5 years, so it really does feel like a pointless law anticipating the commercial surrogacy.
When the new cuban family code introduced non-commercial surrogacy lots of communists here at (country) got REALLY pissed off.