‘Rent-a-Womb’: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ Choice Highlights How Surrogacy Financially...

[Michie]

...Exploits Women

The news revealed an intersection between feminist perspectives and Catholic teaching.

The announcement, marked with a red heart, simply asked for privacy during a special time.

But Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas still collected more than three million “likes” and negative opinions on Twitter when, on Jan. 22, they announced the birth of their first child via surrogate.

“Priyanka doesn't have any fertility issues preventing her from having a baby, but she is 39 now, so it's not getting any easier,” a source told the Daily Mail regarding the couple’s decision to use a surrogate. “Their busy work schedules also mean that it's difficult for them to physically be together to conceive when she is ovulating, so some time ago they went down the surrogacy route."

The news revealed the distinct intersection between feminist perspectives and Catholic teaching: the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the use of a surrogate uterus is “gravely immoral,” and some figures in the feminist movement have expressed their distrust and revulsion towards surrogacy and its negative implications for women.

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‘Rent-a-Womb’: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ Choice Highlights How Surrogacy Financially Exploits Women

 

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[Michie]

Whether you are progressive or conservative, feminist or pro-life, straight or gay, surrogacy is not the answer.


I am an outspoken critic of gestational surrogacy, in which the gestational mother carries a child to term for another person or couple. I have noticed that many people do not understand the stakes in this issue. Pro-life people think, “gosh, surrogacy makes babies, how can that be bad?” Feminists think, “gosh, surrogacy allows people to meet their reproductive goals, how can that be bad?”

Read on. Surrogacy has something to offend everyone.

Pro-life Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

Every surrogacy procedure retrieves eggs and fertilizes them outside the body. These are now tiny human beings. (That is why adults are willing to pay for them.)

• Abortion: If the doctor implants multiple eggs hoping some of them will survive, the surrogate is sometimes contractually required to do “selective reduction,” and abort some of the babies.
• Frozen Embryos: If “extra” embryos are created and not implanted, they are frozen indefinitely, destroyed immediately or “donated” for research.
• Eugenics: Surrogates are sometimes contractually required to abort babies that do not meet the specifications of the “commissioning parents.”

Pro-woman Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

• Broken bonds: The gestational mother’s bond to the child is treated as if it were important during the pregnancy, and completely irrelevant afterwards.
• Objectifying women: The gestational mother is used for her womb and then is legally – and perhaps emotionally – set aside.
• Fewer rights for the mother, compared to adoption: If the gestational mother grows attached to the child, as mothers often do, or if she has concerns about the “commissioning parents,” too bad. Mothers who agree to place a child for adoption can almost always change their minds after the baby has been placed in their arms. Denying gestational mothers the same right is, quite simply, inhuman.

Pro-child Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

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Why everyone should oppose surrogacy

 

[bekkilyn]

I'm also very much against this procedure as I consider it to be abusive and exploitative. There is also nothing at all wrong with adoption if one feels the need to be a parent without going through an actual pregnancy.

 

[Michie]

I'm also very much against this procedure as I consider it to be abusive and exploitative. There is also nothing at all wrong with adoption if one feels the need to be a parent without going through an actual pregnancy.

I’m glad to hear it. People that think money and status gives one the right to exploit others is not a Christian virtue. While surrogacy is present in the Book of Genesis with the story of Sarah and Abraham, the Catholic Church does not advocate for surrogacy. And not everything practiced in Scripture equals approval.

 

[chevyontheriver]

While surrogacy is present in the Book of Genesis with the story of Sarah and Abraham, the Catholic Church does not advocate for surrogacy. And not everything practiced in Scripture equals approval.

Lots of things in Genesis and other parts of the OT happened but were not approved of even at the time. We should not look on every event as some kind of God blessed norm. Look at the trouble Sarah and Hagar and Abraham got into! Approved by God? No way.

 

[Michie]

Lots of things in Genesis and other parts of the OT happened but were not approved of even at the time. We should not look on every event as some kind of God blessed norm. Look at the trouble Sarah and Hagar and Abraham got into! Approved by God? No way.

Yeah. It did not end well.