I'm glad my Twitter bubble is talking about #surrogacy. It's a severe women's and children's rights violation. No one has a right to a genetic child if they can't carry it themselves and to ask a woman to take the severe medical risks. No money or gratitude can make up for it.
The reality is that surrogacy is always a woman de facto signing away (at least part of) her bodily autonomy to someone else. It's being promoted as "her autonomy" when really it means contractually there are now other people involved in serious medical decision making.
Funny how when we promote female bodily autonomy we went from the medically necessary life saving procedure of abortion, to horrible painful things like being beaten, humiliated, penetrated or impregnated for money. None of those things benefit her - they just put her at risk.
Her body is still always there for someone else. Someone else's pleasure. Someone else's desire for a genetic child at all cost. And the industries arising from it are built for the customer - not the "worker". The delusion of believing that its otherwise is still startling to me
Lastly let me address as the aspect of defending surrogacy by charging all those in opposition with homophobia: Its overwhelmingly straight couples who make use of the industry but even if it wasn't - I don't care how oppressed you are - you never have a right to a woman's body.
I encourage everyone in this discussion to read more on the subject and to understand the parallels to the sex industry. For example you find a quick but substantive look into both surrogacy and prostitution in Kajsa Ekis Ekman's "Being And Being Bought". feministcurrent.com/2014/10/06/sur…
A long insightful thread on the reality of #surrogacy:
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