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Kate's avatar

I can't adequately express how angry and disgusted surrogacy makes me. Women are not rental gestational units to be exploited. No one is "owed" a baby, and a gay couple is not "experiencing infertility." If you are gay or lesbian, not being able to bear children is a function of that orientation, not a bug. And lest someone accuse me of homophobia, I am a lesbian.

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Tayla Tzirulnik's avatar

Great timing! Currently writing my master’s dissertation for SOAS on surrogacy

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There's a company called Conception working on making synthetic human eggs “in case one of the sexes becomes extinct" says Matt Krisiloff the CEO of Conception, Matt Krisiloff, ex-boyfriend of Sam Altman of the leading AI company ChatGPT, says it's so that men partners can have babies using both men's DNA without using any genetic material from a woman, which would be necessary if women were extinct. (Aside: Sam Altman has recently been able to purchased an infant through surrogacy, dispite the fact that he's long been accused by his sister, who is nine years his junior, of having been sexually abused by him for years. How can this dystopian nightmare be happening?

Because of an interest in the biosciences I've been doing some research on the men who are trying to manufacture eggs. With dollar signs in their eyes Matt Krisiloff, and his husband Pablo Hurtado, have already had success in creating some ovarian tissue which can nurture an artificial egg in case the sex who produces eggs becomes extinct. (guess which one of the sexes? Likely the one who produces eggs.) This idea of the expendability of women goes way back to the Seventies when a trans man in Berkeley CA named Angela said women were no longer necessary. ( His rationalization was because of a glut of humans.)

Matt Krisiloff's billion dollar company, Conception, wants to get in on the enormous profits early because he expects so many men would like to combine each others genes within one egg rather than use a woman's egg and her genes, which would be in it. Krisiloff feels he's getting closer to his goal with his manufactured ovary cells nurturing prototype eggs.

https://www.healthlawpolicy.org/2024/03/05/the-viability-of-in-vitro-gametogenesis-for-social-and-situational-infertility

https://humanumreview.com/articles/the-obsolescence-of-parenthood

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/27/adam-king-chicago-vet-charged-child-porn/73117176007/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/15/1184298351/conception-human-eggs-ivg-ivf-infertility

https://abc13.com/post/6-sex-abuse-victims-face-adoptive-father-hayim-cohen-court-read-impact-statements-before-he-is-sent-prison-40-years/16172986/

We have already seen so many examples of the erasure of women in language (pregnant people, chestfeeders, people with front holes, people with cervixes) and in social/political roles that it should come as no surprise that there are men who hope to erase women biologically as well.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/children-from-gamete-like-cells-dishing-up-a-eugenic-future

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dean-phillips-biden-challenger-super-pac-sam-altman-1234949460/

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/without-men-women-and-sex-scientists-one-step-away-from-making-human-babies-from-a-single-cell-12880462.html

https://people.com/ga-couple-adopted-young-boys-filmed-sexual-abuse-house-of-horrors-8766348

https://abc11.com/archive/6886092/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15WRLBkHBs/

https://reduxx.info/argentina-gay-man-self-identifies-as-a-woman-in-apparent-effort-to-avoid-femicide-charges-after-murdering-surrogate/

https://reduxx.info/medical-journal-floats-concept-of-using-braindead-women-as-surrogates-through-whole-body-gestational-donation/

theories by Israeli medical professor Rosalie Ber

https://www.alliancevita.org/en/2023/02/use-of-brain-stem-dead-women-as-surrogate-mothers

https://reduxx.info/context-viral-photo-shows-argentinian-performer-with-5-year-old-surrogate-son/

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