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???
I have had the same unease and I never dare share it with anyone in my pmc lib circles with many other gay couples lol. I only have a few fragmentary thoughts, which are, I suppose, how commercial surrogacy and non-commercial ones should be thought of differently — in the same way the organ donation is certainly a necessary program whilst organ trade would be dystopian levels of exploitation (but apparently I've heard there are Econ 101 text books that argue organ trade should be allowed to improve efficiency lol).
But then, as my partner and I have thought of having children, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the difference between commercial surrogacy and the adoption & foster systems in the US. I cannot help but think that whichever path we pursue it's gonna be hyper-exploitative toward the poor, not because the technology of surrogacy or the abstract idea of adoption or foster care is essentially exploitative (wouldn't that just be misguided Ludditism or social conservatism?) but because, well, capitalism turns every kind of technology, statecraft, or system of social governance into exploitation. Which is why I am less and less enthusiastic of having children.