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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Surrogacy and feminism

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TheBossofMe · 03/08/2010 09:48

Just picking up on a point that Sakura raised a little while ago on another thread about surrogacy. Is it anti-feminist? Will confess to having seriously made surrogacy arrangements with a friend (her egg, my womb, baby for each of us) in the past (not needed by either of us in the end). Did my desire to have a child blind me to the oppressive nature of surrogacy, ie reducing women to a talking womb?

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AnyFucker · 03/08/2010 10:12

When I was living through my years of infertility, I would have considered many ways to have a baby

the feminist viewpoint would not have entered my head

does egg donation come under the same umbrella then ?

slouchingtowardswaitrose · 03/08/2010 10:09

How would there have been a baby for each of you?

Were you going to share the baby?

I need to think about whether I think surrogacy is oppressive.

I have serious issues with it when the 'surrogate' is actually the mother, using her own egg, so that she is effectively selling her baby, and/or giving up her rights to it.

TheBossofMe · 03/08/2010 09:49

OK, that clearly should have said walking womb.

However, talking wombs also welcome.

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