Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-surrogate-babies/ The doublethink ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-surrogate-babies/
The doublethink is eye-watering. In the normal run of things, we’re told it’s vital to talk to ‘baby’ in the womb and to breastfeed no matter what, for the sake of his health. So why, when it comes to surrogacy, is it the ‘commissioning parents’ who come first? Surrogates are encouraged to hand the baby over quick-sharp, so that the purchasing parents don’t feel left out. It’s kinder anyway not to let the bond form between surrogate and baby, they say – but it already formed long ago.
As the law stands in this country, the woman who’s given birth is the baby’s legal mother for the first six weeks of a child’s life. The proposed change would transfer legal responsibility for the child to the paying parent at the moment of birth. Brutally, this would remain the case even if the gestational mother had also given her egg and grown her own genetic child. Can this really be in the interests of the child, or is it intended simply to offer reassurance to paying parents that there’s no risk attached to their purchase – to grow the market?
But beware. The more you treat a baby like a purchase, the more parents will behave like purchasers.
https://archive.ph/KewwW
The doublethink is eye-watering. In the normal run of things, we’re told it’s vital to talk to ‘baby’ in the womb and to breastfeed no matter what, for the sake of his health. So why, when it comes to surrogacy, is it the ‘commissioning parents’ who come first? Surrogates are encouraged to hand the baby over quick-sharp, so that the purchasing parents don’t feel left out. It’s kinder anyway not to let the bond form between surrogate and baby, they say – but it already formed long ago.
As the law stands in this country, the woman who’s given birth is the baby’s legal mother for the first six weeks of a child’s life. The proposed change would transfer legal responsibility for the child to the paying parent at the moment of birth. Brutally, this would remain the case even if the gestational mother had also given her egg and grown her own genetic child. Can this really be in the interests of the child, or is it intended simply to offer reassurance to paying parents that there’s no risk attached to their purchase – to grow the market?
But beware. The more you treat a baby like a purchase, the more parents will behave like purchasers.
https://archive.ph/KewwW