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Surrogacy Is A Form Of Slavery. It Should Be Abolished

A complex legal dispute over an unborn child has exposed the inhumanity and cruelty of commercial surrogacy.

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One of the entirely foreseeable consequences of the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling legalizing same-sex marriage has been the rise of commercial surrogacy over the last decade, mostly for gay couples who want to raise children. If two men can legally marry, so the reasoning goes, and they enjoy equal rights as a married man and woman, then they should have the right to contract with a woman to carry an IVF-conceived child.

It doesn’t take a philosopher or an ethicist to see the potential problems with this arrangement, yet as a society we jumped into it with effectively zero public debate. Now, more than ten years out from Obergefell, the theoretical dangers of commercial surrogacy are very real, life-or-death problems.

One recent case, largely ignored by the corporate press, not only exposes the stomach-turning perversity of surrogacy but exposes it as a modern-day form of the slave trade that a civilized society should outlaw without exceptions. In what has become a complex and potentially unprecedented legal case, last month the Alaska Superior Court ruled that a California court could dictate the time and place a surrogate mother in Alaska will give birth.

The woman, McKenna West, contracted with a company called Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists last September to serve as a surrogate for a couple in California, identified in court documents only as A.B. and C.D. Twenty weeks into her pregnancy, a routine scan revealed the child, a boy, has a serious but treatable heart condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).

Upon hearing this news, the California couple demanded that West get a risky late-term abortion, invoking an abortion-on-demand clause in their surrogacy contract. Since no doctor in Alaska would perform the abortion, the couple tried to force........

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