The Supreme Court’s Abysmal Birthplace Citizenship Ruling Is Exactly Why We Should Ban Surrogacy, by Jordan Boyd

There are a multitude of reasons the rent-a-womb industry should be banned. Surrogacy denies children’s natural rights to life, to a mother and father, and to freedom from commodification; exploits vulnerable women; and creates reproduction loopholes for pedophiles and other bad actors unfit to be parents. The most imminent and possibly important justification for taking swift and legal action to shut down America’s proxy pregnancy market is the increasing exploitation of birthplace citizenship by America’s sworn enemies.

The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause specifies that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” According to Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and the high bench’s Democrat-nominated justices, however, babies of illegal aliens and surrogates paid by wealthy foreigners are just as American as you or I simply because they were born on U.S. dirt. …

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