Feeling a natural attachment towards the child you’re carrying does nothing to benefit the 14-billion-dollar baby-commodifying industry.
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The “Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act,” which decriminalizes surrogate motherhood in the state of Michigan, is planned to take effect in March of this year. Michigan is the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy, and some may say it’s about time they “catch up” to the rest of the country.
One surrogacy agency recently posted that “choosing to carry a child for another family is one of the most profound gifts of love and compassion.” On the surface, surrogacy would appear this way, as what could possibly be wrong with helping couples have children? It’s only when we dive beyond the emotion-motivated surface that we can see surrogacy for what it truly is: the exploitation of women and the trafficking of children.