This article was a good overview of the issue in many ways, although maybe a little too cheery and not quite critical enough, but I was really disappointed by not one mention or reflection on the impact on the babies themselves as so many others have already commented here. I'm 5 months pregnant right now, gratefully with my own precious…
This article was a good overview of the issue in many ways, although maybe a little too cheery and not quite critical enough, but I was really disappointed by not one mention or reflection on the impact on the babies themselves as so many others have already commented here. I'm 5 months pregnant right now, gratefully with my own precious baby, and I found the anecdote about the "parents" who ripped away the baby from her right after birth and didn't communicate further just gut wrenching. All three people involved, including the surrogate, participated in abuse of and potential trauma to that child in my opinion.
I am so disturbed and so disheartened by the Pandora's box we've opened with Big Fertility and how rarely I see ppl showing concern for the children caught up in this. It seems that no one in the industry nor its consumers are asking-- what is the health impact on the baby of conception through IVF (there's data showing a link with ASDs and obesity)?, what are the ethics of millions of frozen embryos? what are the downstream psychological and physiological effects of gene edting of embryos? what are the effects of years of synthetic testosterone on the developing baby when transmen get pregnant? what are the effects of not even having the option to breastfeed? what are the effects of not having a mother? what is the psychological impact of never knowing the woman who carried you in her womb? what is the psychological impact of later coming to learn that you were commissioned and gestated, at least in part, out of a desire for narcissistic gratification? It's all about the adults and their desires and comfort.
The difficult truth is that no one has a right to a child. I'm less clear on what I think about IVF but much more clear that surrogacy is flat out wrong and exploitative at its core. I say this counting myself incredibly lucky to have gotten pregnant at 37 on our first try. I knew that ease was not guaranteed and a sense of panic and regret overcame me before getting pregnant--I had waited too long, had put my career first, and had ultimately fallen victim to the sway of progressive/leftist/liberal ideology telling me it was more valuable to be a girl boss and to put myself and my self-gratification first at all costs, only to realize as I moved into my mid-thirties, still single at the time, that what I wanted more than anything was to be a mother and have a family.
Over the last few years due to witnessing unhinged leftism and primarily due to covid overreach and vaccine hysteria, I have pulled back the curtain on what the liberal ideology I was raised with has become, and looked on in horror and disbelief. Perhaps this is the inevitable logical conclusion of progressivism. I don't know, but the narcissism, the tunnel vision, and the refusal to put children first, in really any way, greatly disturbs me!
This article was a good overview of the issue in many ways, although maybe a little too cheery and not quite critical enough, but I was really disappointed by not one mention or reflection on the impact on the babies themselves as so many others have already commented here. I'm 5 months pregnant right now, gratefully with my own precious baby, and I found the anecdote about the "parents" who ripped away the baby from her right after birth and didn't communicate further just gut wrenching. All three people involved, including the surrogate, participated in abuse of and potential trauma to that child in my opinion.
I am so disturbed and so disheartened by the Pandora's box we've opened with Big Fertility and how rarely I see ppl showing concern for the children caught up in this. It seems that no one in the industry nor its consumers are asking-- what is the health impact on the baby of conception through IVF (there's data showing a link with ASDs and obesity)?, what are the ethics of millions of frozen embryos? what are the downstream psychological and physiological effects of gene edting of embryos? what are the effects of years of synthetic testosterone on the developing baby when transmen get pregnant? what are the effects of not even having the option to breastfeed? what are the effects of not having a mother? what is the psychological impact of never knowing the woman who carried you in her womb? what is the psychological impact of later coming to learn that you were commissioned and gestated, at least in part, out of a desire for narcissistic gratification? It's all about the adults and their desires and comfort.
The difficult truth is that no one has a right to a child. I'm less clear on what I think about IVF but much more clear that surrogacy is flat out wrong and exploitative at its core. I say this counting myself incredibly lucky to have gotten pregnant at 37 on our first try. I knew that ease was not guaranteed and a sense of panic and regret overcame me before getting pregnant--I had waited too long, had put my career first, and had ultimately fallen victim to the sway of progressive/leftist/liberal ideology telling me it was more valuable to be a girl boss and to put myself and my self-gratification first at all costs, only to realize as I moved into my mid-thirties, still single at the time, that what I wanted more than anything was to be a mother and have a family.
Over the last few years due to witnessing unhinged leftism and primarily due to covid overreach and vaccine hysteria, I have pulled back the curtain on what the liberal ideology I was raised with has become, and looked on in horror and disbelief. Perhaps this is the inevitable logical conclusion of progressivism. I don't know, but the narcissism, the tunnel vision, and the refusal to put children first, in really any way, greatly disturbs me!