The truth about surrogate babies

Feb 13, 2025 by

by Mary Wakefield, Spectator: I was a twin when I was born, but this was in the days before decent scans and proper neonatal intensive care, and we were more than two months premature, so not long afterwards, my twin died. As a child, I...

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Surrogacy – a crust of happiness over a stew of corruption and exploitation

Feb 4, 2025 by

by Michael Cook, Mercator: “Lily Collins welcomes her first baby, while her husband shuts down haters criticising surrogacy journey.” I didn’t know who Lily Collins is either, but this week’s headline in Cosmopolitan suggests that she is...

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Surrogacy is a huge business – and an exploitative one

Feb 4, 2025 by

by Suzanne Moore, Telegraph: The practice has become a global phenomenon, estimated to be worth almost £14.5 billion – with the mothers its waste product. Here is some astonishing celebrity news. A beautiful actress has just handed over a...

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The State mustn’t legalise more family fiction

Jan 22, 2025 by

by Tony Rucinski, Coalition for Marriage: If Government ministers decided that triangles now have four sides, they’d be wrong. Changing definitions does not change reality. The same is true of marriage. When marriage was redefined in law...

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Behind the New Italian Ban on Surrogacy

Jan 2, 2025 by

by Marianna Orlandi, Public Discourse: Should children gestated and born in violation of Italian laws be taken from these putative “parents?” Or should Italian sovereignty capitulate, accepting that whatever adults want, and pay for (even...

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Illusions of Control and the Ableism of Big Fertility

Nov 14, 2024 by

by Patience Sunne, Public Discourse: Children are not a means to the end of adult happiness or fulfilled longings. They are human beings who deserve to be treated with dignity. Refusal to accept that we are not ultimately in control means...

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