He pointed out that in this country no one is coerced or paid...
If you're in the UK, it might be worth noting that since the Brexit vote, the pro-surrogacy lobby has been pushing hard to dismantle the "altruistic" surrogacy framework under the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 and promote the UK as a paid surrogacy centre for Europe. (The EU's fundamental charter of rights prohibits commercial surrogacy, although only some EU countries explicitly outlaw the practice).
Interest in the UK has risen even more this year as some of the few European countries with legal commercial surrogacy (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine) are less accessible or attractive to foreigners due to the war. It's believed that language, location, demographics, and projected cost reduction due to the surrogate's regular health and prenatal care being subsidised by the NHS would make the UK a destination of choice over places like the USA or former USSR for European buyers.
A 2019 joint consultation by the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission detailed proposed changes including legally enforcible commercial contracts, increasing the pool of UK surrogates by loosening the rules on payment up to and including "unrestricted payments", and lowering the minimum age for surrogates from 21 to 18. Here's a recent article from the Observer setting out detailed concerns re commercial surrogacy in the UK.
Current UK laws don't prevent residents from engaging in paid surrogacy arrangements abroad, and in fact policy normalises these cases, allowing the buyer to be recognised as the legal parent with little scrutiny or safeguarding compared to (for example) an international adoption. In 2019, an English court awarded £500K for a claimant, judged to have become infertile due to medical error, to pay for commercial surrogacy to obtain four babies in California.
In Scotland, the NHS has started paying full surrogacy costs as "equal infertility treatment" for male couples, so taxpayers are forced to fund surrogacy even if they find it unethical. The couple profiled in the linked article hired a private surrogate through an agency and NHS Scotland paid a total of £45K (that was only one baby). While surrogates in the UK currently can't be directly paid for the baby or for the work of having a baby, "even" the promise of a safe place to live, all expenses paid for nine months, and whatever else can be classified as allowable gifts/funding can be a incentive for desperate women to do something they would not otherwise "choose" to do.
In places where commodified surrogacy is legal, women are often directly forced to take part by parents, husbands, etc. or compelled by circumstances that limit their access to earning an income/providing for their own and their family's basic needs. In other places where paid surrogacy is illegal - for example in Brazil, where it's classified as organ trafficking and punishable with prison terms of up to eight years - there are still reports of women offering paid surrogacy services online in spite of that risk. The "right" to family life, as it's called, the same "right" to have and raise one's own baby that's so important to people who can afford commercial surrogacy, often doesn't seem to extend to these women and their families.