
International Group Launches Proposal to Ban Surrogacy Worldwide
The main interest of this collective statement, according to Mirkovic, is to draw attention to the issue at the international level in order to prompt a global response.
The main interest of this collective statement, according to Mirkovic, is to draw attention to the issue at the international level in order to prompt a global response.
COMMENTARY: God wants our participation in parenthood to be a participation in love, not, as in the case of the popular internet celebrity’s recent announcement, commerce, technology and an act of willfulness.
The news revealed an intersection between feminist perspectives and Catholic teaching.
The devastating consequences of treating children like commodities and the women who carry them as subordinates.
In one instance, 46 babies purchased by people from the U.S., Italy, Spain and elsewhere born through surrogacy are stranded in a Ukraine hotel-turned-hospital, as the country has closed its borders because of the pandemic.
A now-viral video, recently posted online by BioTexCom, the country’s largest surrogacy agency, shows nearly 50 babies being cared for in a large hotel room in Kyiv, with an uncertain future.
COMMENTARY: Anderson Cooper’s recent acquisition of a child through surrogacy underscores that surrogacy is inherently unfair.
Jennifer Lahl, the nurse who heads the Center for Bioethics and Culture, discusses why Steinem helped derail a New York bill that would legalize commercial surrogacy and explains how the practice exploits women.
Under current law, surrogacy contracts in the state are punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or by a felony charge.
COMMENTARY: The legalization of commercially contracted gestational-surrogacy agreements is the latest American family landscape: modern baby-making markets.
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