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???

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's been months so I don't really recall very well. I think some points were:

      • You aren't entitled to children
      • Some agencies sell kids for profit
      • Oftentimes people are not equipped to deal with possible trauma
      • Address the cause of putting kids up for adoption
      • Lack of legal rights for the biological parent-child relationship

      But if you ask me to elaborate I can't.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        there are definitely criticisms there but the adoption system clearly is needed at present to solve the problem of caring for orphans

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        those all sound like long roads around just saying "you can't because capitalism+patriarchy".