Because I dared to tweet this, people using the #IStandWithJKRolling hashtag are on the offensive. Telling me that I have no right to a family though surrogacy (1/3)https://twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1308357671708434434 …
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The child doesn't specifically need to know folks based on genetic material.
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Also, in a majority of cases, surrogates are employed by cishet couples In many of these cases the wife is able to produce ova but unable to conceive, and is therefore the egg donor for the pregnancy So the child does not have, by your definition, a single "real mother"
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I feel like the reactionaries on this issue focus on gay men not just because they're homophobes (though that's the main reason) but because this blows up their whole philosophical objection
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Also..... even in cases with gay male almost all surrogacy is gestational. Meaning that with a gay male couple they get an egg donated through an egg bank, have it fertilized via IVF, then have the embryo transferred to the surrogate.
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Sometimes friends will agree to a straight surrogacy (where they are the biological mother), but most are gestational.
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