Full Surrogacy Now – Feminism Against Family

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In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond

recognition. But we need more surrogacy, not less! The surrogacy industry

is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in

terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it

be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you? Full Surrogacy Now

brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making

surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we

should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front

and center, and their rights to the babies they gestate should be expanded

to acknowledge that they are more than mere vessels. In doing so we can

break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose

genetics they share. This might sound like a radical proposal but expanding

our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective

responsibility for children, rather than only caring for the ones we share

DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship. Adopting this

expanded concept of surrogacy helps us to see that it always, as the saying

goes, takes a village to raise a child.