Don’t celebrate the Buttigieg twins’ mother-loss
by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, LifeSite:
Pete Buttigieg’s weekend announcement that he and “husband” Chasten are “becoming parents” of twins had the Twitterverse abuzz. Odd phrasing, that “becoming parents” verbiage. More accurately, two men, who are biologically prohibited from “becoming” parents without the involvement and sacrifice of a woman or two, have acquired children.
Even more disquieting, their photo announcement featured the pair seated on a hospital bed, displacing the woman who carried these babies for nine months and labored to bring them into the world.
It’s more probable that these children were manufactured by Big Fertility and gestated in a hired womb, an assumption informed by the fact that the likelihood of twins jumps to 40% in IVF procedures, which is of course the only route to a surrogate pregnancy. Whether intended parents shelling out six-figures are seeking more “bang for their buck,” or in the case of gay couples where both men want a genetic tie to their offspring, twins are a staple of surrogate pregnancies.
When it comes to children’s rights, there’s a big difference between adoption and third-party reproduction. Adoption is an institution centered around the best interest of children, Big Fertility is a marketplace centered around the desires (and checkbooks) of adults.
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