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 @Eristae and
You should read Aldous Huxley's Island, in which surrogacy is presented as a healthy part of a good society.
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Replying to @RayTski @GirvanSands and
Yeah I mean I barely remember anything about Island but I think the point was that Huxley was a little bit unhappy BNW got received as this across-the-board anti-tech primitivist manifesto and wrote Island to try to demonstrate what he really thought
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But people didn't really seem to like it so I guess what he really thought was not all that appealing or clear a message
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GirvanSands and
I think its more of an issue that it's easier to write a dystopia than a utopia with broad appeal. I kinda liked Island even though I disagree with large parts of it.
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