A couple of weeks ago @NYGovCuomo legalized commercial #surrogacy by attaching it to financial aid during #COVID outbreak. Non-profit surrogacy was already legal.

Bill was sponsored by @bradhoylman, who also wants to legalize sex trafficking and create a breast milk industry.
2) Women still die in childbirth.
This is especially true for surrogacy pregnancies, as all are deemed "high-risk" due to the hormones used. No official record is kept on how many women have died in surrogacy contracts.
More about health risks later. https://www.today.com/parents/mom-acting-surrogate-another-family-dies-while-giving-birth-t172216">https://www.today.com/parents/m...
The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the industrialized world.
Creating a womb rental industry is a death sentence.
They are telling us that the "right" to paternity certainty, and profit, matter more than women& #39;s lives. https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113782/pregnancy-deaths-us-maternal-mortality-rate">https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30...
4) Commodification of life

The main conceptual problem in surrogacy — the production and sale of a child — is that it reduces both women and children to commodities in commerce.

This results in trafficking women and children in “baby farms”. https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1510175/ugandan-women-sold-china">https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_visio...
The #CPSA bill passed in NY (called the "Child Parent Security Act", how Orwellian) does not protect against trafficking and stipulates that the woman giving birth cannot change her mind. It secures the parentage of the paying customers and removes it from the birth mother.
6) Health Risks: Mother

All surrogate pregnancies are high-risk.
Think of embryo transfer as organ transfer. The body may reject foreign DNA and may cause a variety of complications.
These are NOT the same health risks of any other pregnancy.
"They feel as if they have been hired to do a job, and that job is a paid breeder. One surrogate, who almost died due to high-risk pregnancy complications, was told that it was her fault and was accused of doing it on purpose to make more money." https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-overlooked-risks-of-surrogacy-for-women">https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-...
Genetic surrogacy uses IVF to create an embryo to implant into the gestational mother. This carries a risk of twin pregnancy of around 21%. Twin pregnancy has many complications during pregnancy and labour including pre-eclampsia, anaemia, and obstetric haemorrhage.
In addition, the use of hormones during the procedure - both for egg donation and gestational surrogacy - are known to have severe side effects for women.

Lupron is also used to chemically castrate sex offenders, and given to halt puberty of GNC youth. https://www.nwhn.org/lupron-what-does-it-do-to-womens-health/">https://www.nwhn.org/lupron-wh...
@JenniferLahl has made several films and done interviews with women about the various ways their health was impacted, mentally and physically, and how they were exploited by the industry. She has also addressed the UN on this issue https://youtu.be/HFlgEttftn8 ">https://youtu.be/HFlgEttft...
#Surrogacy was developed by farmers for husbandry. One of the creators of IVF was an active eugenicist. Emerging technologies, such as sex-selective surrogacy, were also developed for increasing profits through animal breeding: selecting for females cows and chickens.
7) Health Risks (child)
"Neonates born from commissioned embryos and carried by gestational surrogates have increased adverse outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight, hypertension, maternal gestational diabetes, and placenta previa" https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(17)31941-6/fulltext">https://www.fertstert.org/article/S...
"I knew from an early age that I was purchased and selected from essentially a catalog. I knew that my blonde hair and blue eyes was somehow valued above other colorations … that I was purchased precisely to make her happy, that was my raison d’etre." http://www.cbc-network.org/2019/07/bigfertility-exposes-ways-surrogacy-harms-children/">https://www.cbc-network.org/2019/07/b...
8) Sex-selective surrogacy (SSS)

A procedure which allows intended parents to choose the sex of their child.

According to a recent study, men preferred to select for sons over daughters, whereas women expressed no preference for the sex of the child.

https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_144104 ">https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_1441...
Sperm carrying the X has 500 more genes than sperm carrying the Y. Researchers attached proteins to the X genes to slow them down. It seems sperm sorting mimics real life on a micro scale: men deliberately weighing women down in order to advance.
Mitochondrial replacement technologies confer an inheritable genetic alteration, a change which is passed on to future generations if the child is a girl. Changes to DNA will potentially be permanently incorporated into the human genome.
The U.S. National Academies of Science advised that use of mitochondrial editing be limited to male embryos, in which event the change would not be inheritable. So far, this suggestion has been ignored by policymakers. https://theconversation.com/the-next-frontier-in-reproductive-tourism-genetic-modification-67132">https://theconversation.com/the-next-...
https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1297166223042441217?s=19">https://twitter.com/WomenRead...
https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1297196540830732289?s=19">https://twitter.com/WomenRead...
The next time someone tells you that #IVF and #surrogacy were created to help infertile women: the ART industry was developed on breeding livestock, and IVF developer Robert G. Edwards was an active member of Britain& #39;s Eugenics Society. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eugenic-legacy-nobel-ivf/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/e...
"These women can suffer extreme pain and contract illnesses, such as OHSS, which can lead to strokes or heart attacks. A three-time commercial surrogate mother, Brooke Brown, died due to placental rupture, as did the twins she was bearing." https://womensenews.org/2019/05/handmaids-and-jezebels-new-york-must-not-legalize-harm/">https://womensenews.org/2019/05/h...
In Korea, couples without male heirs used surrogate mothers called ssi-baji. If one of these women had a boy, she handed him over to the client. If she had a girl, she kept the child and received a smaller fee. Her daughter then became a ssi-baji as well. https://www.bioedge.org/mobile/view/the-tide-turns-in-the-international-surrogacy-market/13515">https://www.bioedge.org/mobile/vi...
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