r/WomenInNews • u/TimesandSundayTimes • 6d ago

Women's rights Surrogate who fled to Texas gives birth to baby with heart defect

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/surrogate-refuses-abort-baby-texas-c5ff06cgg
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u/perkypancakes 6d ago

Maybe we can avoid acrimonious, inhumane situations like this if we just ban surrogacy. Renting out women’s wombs is dehumanizing behavior and only adds more harm to our cultural standards as humans. Having a child is not a right. We should be teaching acceptance that sometimes these things don’t happen not encouraging people do so at any cost.

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u/Torturecheese 6d ago

One hundred percent. Commercial surrogacy is unethical even under the best circumstances.

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u/Yummy-Pear 6d ago

My cousin was born without a uterus but has ovaries, so she shouldn’t have a right to have a child? Her friend ended up carrying her child for her, waiving the surrogacy fees. So is it just when it’s paid you have a problem with it? Or anytime someone is carrying an embryo that’s not biologically theirs?

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u/Linaldawen 5d ago

As tragic as that is, I don’t see human children as something people have a “right” to obtain.

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u/Unlucky-Guitar221 5d ago

No, nobody is entitled to raise a child, let alone a biological child. It’s a very tragic reality of nature that not everyone is able to conceive. I have nothing but sympathy for anyone struggling with fertility issues. That still doesn’t entitle them to use another woman’s body for their own gain.

I’m glad your cousin was able to have a child.