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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Replying to @feral_feminist @arthur_affect and
This reminds me of this situation I encountered when I was a kid when an adult I knew was opining how if we ever got to the point where we could grow kids in vats, it'd be a tragity because those kids would miss out on bonding with their mothers in the womb?
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Replying to @Eristae @feral_feminist and
Perhaps you should read Brave New World which deals with this very situation.
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Replying to @GirvanSands @feral_feminist and
I did and I'm going to be honest 1) I hated it 2) I forgot almost everything about it. And 3) It has nothing to do with my point.
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Replying to @Eristae @feral_feminist and
Growing kids in vats has nothing to do with your point? Hmmm - interesting.
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Replying to @GirvanSands @Eristae and
A fictional novel has nothing to do with the real-life question of the pros and cons of such a thing, or at the very least is an absurdly tendentious way to make the argument
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I can bring up CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength as an argument for why we should ban abortion too It's even arguably a better book (at least it doesn't go around calling women "pneumatic" all the time) We could do this all day
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