Gloria Steinem has died, as you’ve likely heard by now. Obituaries note that she was a women’s rights activist. Not many of them are noting that included being opposed to commercial surrogacy. She spoke out against it prominently in New York when Andrew Cuomo moved to legalize it.

A state that medicalizes and rents out female bodies — with third party profit as a motive and little or no regulation of risk to the women egg donors and surrogate wombs — jeopardizes a woman’s fundamental right to health and freedom and puts profit ahead of the long-term welfare of the fetus.

A state that medicalizes and rents out female bodies — with third party profit as a motive and little or no regulation of risk to the women egg donors and surrogate wombs — jeopardizes a woman’s fundamental right to health and freedom and puts profit ahead of the long-term welfare........

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