In any other context, the buying and selling of children would be rightly reviled. Yet when it comes to commercial surrogacy, many turn a blind eye.

To be clear, babies are certainly worth celebrating — especially in an increasingly selfish society that depicts parenthood as a form of punishment. But not all methods of conception are created equal.

With gestational surrogacy, babies created in labs are implanted into the wombs of women who are of no relation to them. Nine months later, the child gets ripped from the arms of the person who has become their entire world and sent home with strangers — people with whom they may share DNA but nothing more.   ….

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