The dark side of the global surrogacy trade
Surrogacy is harmful to the birth mother and to the baby. The trade in babies should be banned.
My investigation into the global sale of wombs, eggs, and babies was published by the Telegraph Developing World pages on the 13th August, 2024. You can read it here (no paywall):
Elton John and David Furnish have done it, and so have Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
There’s a bloke from Essex who recently joined the club via an undisclosed overseas location and a 72-year-old Scotsman has just been recognised as the legitimate owner of an American one he bought back in 2020.
What we are talking about here is surrogacy: the incubation and effective purchase of babies after the careful selection of their component parts.
The global market – already worth almost $18 billion (£14 billion) – is projected to rise to $129bn by 2032, according to the research firm Global Market Insights, with anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000 babies incubated to order annually.
The fact that the mother of the baby is called the “surrogate” tells you all you need to know. Another medical industry based on lies, like the trans phenomenon. It is the purchasers who are surrogates.
The mother is the woman in whose body the baby spends its first nine months. She is the baby’s entire world. Then the baby is born and with surrogacy the baby is removed to a completely different place, with different sounds, smells, touches, energies. In earlier times we knew that motherless babies did not thrive. Now we are deliberately engineering the birth of motherless babies so that selfish rich people can have “their own” children without the inconvenience of having the dangerous activities of pregnancy and childbirth - the things that create an irreplaceable relationship between mother and child.
The purchasers are the surrogates and can never replace a child’s real mother. This practice is a human rights abuse against women and children.
How depressing to see this become normalized.