Men can do anything women can

Removing eggs from a woman requires a medical procedure.

Buy spern buy eggs. Meh. Same difference.

I fully and wholeheartedly support straight and gay men's right to be legal parents. But that is not the same thing as "fertility equity" and it never will be. Women are disproportionately responsible for creating life and no amount of co-parenting, legal documents, laws, etc. will change this biological reality. We must do all we can not to exploit women when it comes to matters of making babies and we can never forget that children have rights as well. I'm quite sick of how the public seems to ignore reproductive reality. It's such a luxury belief, this "privilege of fertility." I mean, WTF...45 years of periods and worry over birth control, 3-14 years of peri periods which can give some women anemia, menopause and then higher risks of osteoporosis.

The reality of women's fertility is not a glossy happy mother/baby post on Instagram.

The human right to a family life means you have the right to a life without government interference. I feel that (and other human rights) has been twisted into the right to possess something.

"Avoiding the risk of bonding".

I was going to say that actually the male has 'fertility privilege' in that they have little to do or risk in the process yet seem to gain plenty of benefits.

I was going to post something after reading this, but I see others have already articulated my feelings. I didn't read many of the comments, but they were mostly the "good luck to them" type rather than any reflection about what it was that he contributed to making this child......

Fertility equality = buying babies and exploiting women's bodies.

Yes, in the cases of males seeking it. I mean, it could be used to describe a co-parenting relationship but I really question how well that works over the lifetime of the child also.

But it feels the focus for males is exploiting women for the male’s gain. And no regard for how that child will feel knowing they were created in this way, for this purpose.

Fertility equality = buying babies and exploiting women's bodies.

These stories make my blood boil. Having children isn't a right. No one is entitled to be a parent. That anyone - male, female, gay, straight, single or couple - thinks it's ok to buy a woman's eggs and commission women [boak] to gestate a foetus for them is so utterly beyond my scope of understanding I honestly cannot fathom how it anyone could do it.

The next stunning and brave frontier, to be sure.

You cant treat it the same for sure.

I mean all men have to do is take a magazine and a cup into a room.

No drugs. No risk of dying in childbirth. No risk of being left with a baby they don't want but who the oarebts refuse to take because its sick/disabled or premature which increases risks if being sick or disabled.

Taking a child away from their mother, denying the fourth trimester creates a lot of trauma. Often it is unavoidable. Not in this situation.

Fertility equality is the current euphemism males are using to hide the fact that they have just exploited at least one female to get a child created just for them. Not to extend their love to a child already created, no. One created just for them.

So special.