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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Replying to @GraceDarney @benjamincohen
Hi, this is only defensible as a non-homophobic argument if you agree this means the NHS shouldn't cover IVF for anyone, including infertile straight couples, who are by far the majority of the people using this service
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Replying to @GraceDarney @benjamincohen
Surrogacy is not paid for by the NHS Commercial surrogacy is banned in the UK
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Replying to @GraceDarney @benjamincohen
The surrogate in this situation is Cohen's sister in law, I think it's safe to say she'll be a part of the child's life if she wants to be, so maybe you should complain about this issue to someone else
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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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Like if I took the child away from the woman they're genetically related to and gave them to the one whose uterus they gestated in I'm equally "taking them away from their mother", aren't I What a conundrum
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