Sometimes the dishonesty is hard to believe.
Alison Phipps @alisonphipps
Seeing Indian surrogates described as ‘wombs for rent’ by British feminists seems deeply objectifying and disrespectful to me.
What Julie Bindel actually wrote:
Having heard many stories about how commonplace outsourcing pregnancy and reproduction is, I am in India to investigate the country’s “rent-a-womb” industry.
As a feminist campaigner against sexual abuse of women, and in particular the sex trade, I feel sick at the idea of wombs for rent. Sitting in the clinic, seeing smartly dressed women come in to access fertility services, all I could think about was how desperate a woman must be to carry a child for money. I know from other campaigners against womb trafficking that many surrogates are coerced by abusive husbands and pimps. Watching the smiling receptionist fill out forms on behalf of prospective commissioning parents, I could only wonder at the misery and pain experienced by the women who will end up being viewed as nothing but a vessel.
Alison Phipps is an academic. It is not possible that she misunderstood what Julie so plainly wrote there.
This is not my Left. I repudiate it. I sow salt in its fields.
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Um…I think the tweet needs actual quoting. Or a live link.
Damn! Sorry. It showed up as a tweet on the dashboard and I didn’t check the post.
There’s back-and forth spurred by that tweet that includes the following comment:
Slow Pulse Buoy @nanayasleeps · 3h3 hours ago
@JayneEEgerton @stavvers @alisonphipps #poeslaw and actually I’ve found ‘mums talking feminism’ to be violently oppressive environments, so.
I saw that. Saw it, fumed, fumed some more.