Recently, a picture of two men heading home from Canada to Europe with their surrogate-delivered child garnered a great deal of attention on Twitter. Some objected to the fact that the baby would have no mother, others by the fact that one of the men referenced the baby as his “hand luggage.”
Our news feeds are increasingly peppered with stories of single or coupled gay men procuring children via surrogacy. From the left, the overwhelming response is celebration: “gender doesn’t matter, kids just need loving parents.” And further, in the name of “equality,” Democrats are pushing a national subsidy for third-party reproduction, including surrogacy. The response from the right runs the gamut of surrogacy being a blessing for infertile couples, to “it exploits women,” to “wait, what is that again?”
