"In America in 2020, mothers either are our first intimate relationship, the woman whose voice soothed us in and out of the womb, and the body in which we were knit together … or she is just an “oven” for someone else’s bun." dailysignal.com/2020/05/08/why…
"#Mothers either are the person from whom we get our quirky smile, our curly hair, or our Mediterranean complexion, and the woman we are growing to resemble … or she’s just No. 11365C in the #eggdonor catalog."
Mothers either are the person to whom we ran when we skinned our knee, the woman who helped us make sense of our breakup in middle school, and the woman who made any house we were in our home, or she purposefully can be excluded from the life of a child in the name of “equality.”
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The Conservative, Pro-Life Case Against Surrogacy 🧵
First, surrogacy critique must stem from defending the child. Bioethics and feminist opposition is strong, but can fall flat when all parties — the egg seller, surrogate, and commissioning parents — all love and consent to the arrangement.
A conservative position rejects surrogacy based on the self-evident, natural rights of the child:
• Right to life
• Right to their mother and father
• Right to be born free and not bought and sold.
The child never consent to the intentional loss of his or her mother.
But here’s what they skip: his parents spent 16 years in a bitter custody battle, his mom abducted him to Norway, and he changed his name to escape it all.
Broken homes are the common thread in mass shooters. 🧵