Surrogacy Is The Worst Outcome Of Throwaway Culture
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Surrogacy Is The Worst Outcome Of Throwaway Culture

Surrogacy commodifies women and children in ways no civilized society should tolerate. 

Charles Camosy

It would be difficult to come up with a better example of our technocracy and throwaway culture in action: a same-sex couple in Ontario is suing the surrogate mother they hired to help produce a baby for them for refusing to kill the child at 22 weeks of gestation — an age at which he could have lived outside his mother.

The reason? “Medical experts” told the would-be purchasers of the baby that he had a cleft lip and possibly had genetic abnormalities.

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