Surrogacy, the trade that reduces mothers to incubators
by Ann Farmer, TCW:
A HOMOSEXUAL couple in America are reportedly suing an IVF clinic after a female embryo was implanted in their surrogate and a daughter was born in 2021. Married in 2013, they had ‘dreamed’ of having two sons.
Albert and Anthony Saniger’s claim for unspecified damages alleges that HRC Fertility of Pasadena, which says it is ‘dedicated to helping the gay and lesbian community achieve their dreams of parenthood’ and Dr Bradford A Kolb ‘negligently, recklessly, and/or intentionally transferred a female embryo’ to the couple’s ‘gestational carrier’ and had offered no explanation for how this ‘error’ occurred. It claims the financial impact on the couple is ‘staggering’ because they ultimately will be bringing up three children rather than the two sons they had planned.
The clinic responded: ‘The couple ideally desired a baby boy but were blessed with a healthy girl. To their dissatisfaction, we have sought to address their concerns. Every child has value and limitless potential regardless of gender. We hope the Sanigers find love and value in their healthy child.’ Reassuring yet hard to take seriously when couched in the language of commerce, contracts and consumer rights.
The story has received remarkably little attention. Yet it involves clear discrimination against women and girls in which mothers are termed ‘gestational carriers’ and a baby girl is described as an ‘an error’. Of course, it perfectly fits the mainstream media’s newly minted misogyny, once unacceptable but in deference to LGBTQ etc ideology today is par for the course.
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