What’s not a concern
The way they talk about this!
What did she say?
Many of the countries that are providing surrogacy at the moment internationally are closed to same sex couples, it’s against the law in those countries that same sex couples would avail of it.
Wait slow down. “Countries are providing surrogacy”??? Wtf does that mean? Countries can’t gestate babies for people. It’s only women who can do that – individual women who “provide surrogacy” by gestating one baby at a time. That’s what she meant but it’s not what she said, and what we say about this matters. “Providing surrogacy” makes it sound so tidy, so official, so acceptable. It’s none of those.
The whole conversation rests on the assumption that women’s bodies are a commodity.
It seems a lot of things in our society rest on the assumption that women’s bodies are a commodity: not just surrogacy, but entertainment, advertising, and things like that.
And when we talk about ‘countries providing surrogacy’ it does sound so neat and tidy, and not like there is any human being involved that might be at risk from a difficult pregnancy.