Serious question: How did surrogacy become acceptable given the general feminine lean of society?

posted 150 days ago by Slav4U 150 days ago by Slav4U +15 / -3

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This is one of the more dystopian things in the modern clown world. It seems exploitative of women especially though, how was it allowed to happen?

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– ernsithe 4 points 150 days ago +4 / -0

Older mothers lead to IVF being generally accepted. That's effectively self surrogacy and it's a pretty tiny step* to changing where the implanted materials came from.
The feminist push for "reproductive rights" came to mean "the moment pregnancy is mentioned, anything goes."
Women can profit from it.
The medical industry can profit from it and have significant sway.

* Maybe not in moral terms, but medically.

Try from the other side. How would you argue against surrogacy without stepping on feminist ideals? You end up with the same ideological split as sex work. If the profit makes it "empowering" or if the use of her body makes it "exploitation." With that stalemate in place, refer to #4.

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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 149 days ago +1 / -0

I am against IVF. I think it plays with life in a way that if you are pro life you should not be comfortable with. Even if they didn't discard most of the embryos. All those "failures", by most pro life standards, are children. No, I don't know what happens to blastocysts, many of which in nature are never born.

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