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Didn’t Amber Heard have a surrogate?

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The phenomenon of commissioning parents rejecting the merchandise if the child ends up disabled in some way is truly ghastly. You would expect that behavior from zoo animals, not human parents who are supposedly desperate for a child. Even for those who wave off the suffering of surrogate mothers with choice ideology, that should be a sign that there is something seriously wrong here.

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I agree

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I find "rent-a-womb' difficult to process. To rent implies a contract with obligations placed on both parties. Even in the most underhand arrangements, obligations generally hold in one way or another, legally or criminally. But what you're describing is utterly extractive, in that the mother provides the baby and then gets shunted, whatever her motive to engage in the process. There are no obligations to her. This isn't rent. This is inventory, it's stockpile. There is no reverse payment, no credit. And a middleman makes sure of that.

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Agree

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Every time a living body is turned into money, things get ugly. That's one of the great truths of life. When bodies = money, things get ugly fast.

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Jun 4, 2022·edited Jun 4, 2022Author

Indeed

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And what of the children. Imagine knowing you were created as a commercial product. These children will spend their lives searching for their birth mother and their egg/sperm parents. It will be bewildering. And how many babies can someone order, there is the couple who ordered 23 in 18 months but Georgian agencies have had enquiries for 100 or 1000 who might grow up to work in the commissioners business. I make art about this subject you can see at lisamoro.com

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Thank you Lisa

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