Georgia’s booming baby market. Channel 4

[bebanjo]

I did look but could not see a thread on this.
This was on last night . Did anyone else see it?
The treatment of the women and babies is brutal. Baby’s being left for months with no contact, how many problems will this course?
The clinics are saying that because there is no biological connection between the child and the women then it is not trafficking.

I saw this. Absolutely heartbreaking for the surrogate mothers. I just felt for the woman who had just given birth, was not allowed to hold or see her child, then having to listen to its cries from a cot in the corner of the room.
I also didnt know, before the programme, that surrogates, who used another doner's egg, had to take lots of anti rejection drugs, similar to a transplant for the pregnancy to take. Those drugs have lots of heath complications, and i dont believe for a second that much time is spent worrying about the health of the surrogate mother, other than being a healthy vessel for a baby which will bring money for the agency.

Heartbreaking for the birth mothers and for the babies. I was in tears to see that poor baby alone in a cot without ever experiencing that most basic of needs - a cuddle with his mum, and, if that's not had enough, two months before the commissioning parents arrive. And the empty sadness of his mother, who has nurtured him for 9 months only for him to be dragged out of her body and taken away without even being able to see him.

At least in the Handmaid's Tale the Commanders wives were on hand to cuddle the babies and the babies were breastfed by the Handmaid's so had that experience of human touch.

I don't know how anyone can seriously consider making commercial surrogacy legal in the UK. It is the commercialisation of women's bodies and of babies.

There's a thread on this in the Feminist Chat section, though it hasn't had much traffic ....

Oh, god.

I know it's cowardly but some of the surrogacy stuff I find too upsetting to read/watch.

@ArabellaScott

Oh, god.

I know it's cowardly but some of the surrogacy stuff I find too upsetting to read/watch.

Me too. That it exists as a commercialised industry is horrific.

And the couple buying babies and employing nannies because there were about 20 of them, if not more...and agencies being asked to provide 300 to some “couples” I wonder what they would grow up to be. Actually they refused, but it is a market. Disgusting.

They are not even allowed to hold the babies? Oh god.. I’m in tears thinking about the poor babies. They need human contact… that early neglect affects their development.