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???
ehh under our healthcare system not giving a surrogate money they'd have to pay a bunch of money, even if they were the platonic ideal of a volunteer surrogate.
so its very justifiable people are getting money involved, and after the future parents are paying medical costs, well its just nice if they pay back some lost labor time and a bit more for the trouble. like at what point does that become bad, and "buying" a baby? but these are questions people of equal socioeconomic standings who personally know each other and all want to do it navigate.
like sure, there's some businesses and sleazes financializing it who should be immediately shot but this seems more like a thing open to abuse & bad mostly because poverty exists but shouldn't be illegal. we can do the most to improve it by reducing poverty and healthcare access, and when it doesn't cost a bunch & derail one's livelihood to become a surrogate or just pregnant we can start talking medical ethics.
so yeah the people talking 'non-commercial' surrogacy are basically onto it but its contingent on a bunch of prerequisites the US does not have. and we absolutely should not support any kinds of law in the US giving authorities closer eyes on pregnant people at this juncture, especially with the lgbt angle. i mean we probably won't have to imagine in a few years, it'll probably be illegal to be pregnant and known lgbt in florida