Article about surrogacy in The Guardian

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It's quite long and mostly skewed but there is some input from a woman against it.

The gay male couple got my back up, they seem to think the only problem with women being trafficked for sex is that the women don't get the money! I hope that was an editing cockup.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/tom-daleys-bbc-documentary-on-surrogacy-scrapped-18127772/amp/

at least this got cancelled!

The new article regarding health risks is very relevant.
I noted one of the women in the article had pre-eclampsia but that didn't stop the commissioning father from pressuring her to risk her health by embarking on another surrogacy ASAP. At least the agency took control and insisted on a minimum recovery period of nine months as she had been anaemic. Then she got preeclampsia again and ended up with LSCS.

These men have no care at all about the health of the women doing this (and appear to be completely ignorant of the fact that the mother's health impacts the health of the baby they claim to want so badly), they just see a walking womb to rent. It's so enraging.

They sound like entitled pricks. All that tapping his finger on the table.

I noted one of the women in the article had pre-eclampsia but that didn't stop the commissioning father from pressuring her to risk her health by embarking on another surrogacy ASAP.

That's utterly insane. There's no way anyone who's had a life threatening condition during pregnancy should risk being a surrogate.

Just when you thought you couldn’t be more horrified at the behaviour of baby buyers, another awful story comes along!

That article certainly raised my blood pressure.

The fact that they are so proud of having a ‘motherless’ child. No reflection on how it would feel to be that child. This arrogance ‘anything you can do I can do better’ about motherhood and parenthood. As though the mother-child bond has no intrinsic value and two blokes can do motherhood just as well and anyone who disagrees is homophobic.

All these dim surrogate mothers who don’t spare a thought for the babies they routinely gestate to reject - abandon to be lifestyle accessories of narcissists.

They are all so cruel and awful.