Viral Video Reveals The True Dehumanizing Horror Of Surrogacy
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Viral Video Reveals The True Dehumanizing Horror Of Surrogacy

This week, the state of Michigan became the last state in the union to decriminalize commercial surrogacy. In other words, in all 50 states, you can now rent a woman's body and use it to carry your child, without suffering any criminal penalties.

Matt Walsh

It’s not easy to find examples of practices that are legal everywhere in the United States, but also banned in Canada and most of Europe on moral grounds. Usually it works the other way around. Canada doesn’t place any restrictions whatsoever on abortion, for example. The government will actually pay its citizens to kill their children at any point in a mother’s pregnancy. But in the U.S., in many states at least, there are some limits on that kind of barbarism.

Meanwhile in Europe, as I discussed yesterday, there’s an extremely permissive attitude toward euthanasia. It’s easy for young adults to get their doctors to kill them in The Netherlands, even when they don’t have any kind of terminal illness. But in the U.S., killing patients for no reason is still frowned upon by major medical associations. For now, anyway.

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