Mick Hartley

The case this week of a surrogate mother who had to fight for the right to have any contact with her son – after the gay couple who paid to rent her womb said it was 'homophobic' for her to be involved in their 'motherless family' – has highlighted the contentious nature of surrogacy. Jo Bartosch at Spiked – Surrogacy is exploiting women in the name of ‘inclusivity’:

The positioning of surrogacy as about gay rights is a particularly sinister manoeuvre. Just as with the misogynistic campaign to remove ‘women’ from law for the sake of ‘trans rights’, the push to erase motherhood has come cloaked in a rainbow flag and decorated with inclusive sparkles.

The truth is that gay men are (rightly) at liberty to adopt just as heterosexual couples are. Yet surrogacy is being promoted by mainstream LGBT lobby groups as if using a woman’s womb were a human right. Looking at the steady stream of positive surrogacy stories, it seems a public-relations campaign to normalise the practice is well underway. Already, the surrogacy industry is lucrative, global, powerful and growing. Estimates suggest that within 10 years, it will be valued at around $129 billion….

‘Kindness’ and ‘inclusion’ are being weaponised to normalise the rental of wombs, the sale of babies and the cutting off of contact between children and their mothers. This is brutal, exploitative and fundamentally anti-human.