Stolen Motherhood: Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children

Contracting surrogate mothers is no longer marginal. Nor is it secret. Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social impacts of its normalization has been conducted. It is even regarded as socially progressive, while those who question it are considered to be opposed to progress. The "surrogacy process"—commissioning a woman to bear and give birth to a child and then surrender it—is vitiated by its contractual nature, be it in its so-called altruistic form (i.e.,...