Your point about how we cannot fully pay people for their bodies also reminded me of feminist discussion concerning paying stay-at-home moms for their labour.
I understand people bring it up to highlight how women's labour is undervalued.
But, can we ever truly value the labor of women? How much is the price of our mothers? How much should women be paid for giving birth? It's degrading to suggest women should be paid for this because pregnancy and motherhood are priceless. Can we translate women's value and labour to money? I don't think we can.
I agree with you. Surrogacy is just another form of exploitation of poor women and under no circumstance do I think surrogacy should be allowed and if it is allowed, there needs to be better laws to protect both the surrogate women and child rather. People can adopt kids, foster kids and do more if they can not have biological kids. Surrogacy in India and around world is done by rich women some even have 2 biological kids and by rich gay men who do not care about womens right.
My friend was telling me about rich straight and gay couples coming to the global south with lax surrogate laws, leaving their own countries where it's illegal and exploiting poorer women. It's really sad.
It is true. Just to add, some of the rich people from global south due to internalized racism and colorism also opt for surrogates so that they can have white babies or atleast light skin kids. It is weird and troublesome how surrogacy is marketed as if to make babies according to the skin color and things one wants. Similar to IVF. Apparently, in USA, people will pay 30000 USD per egg for an asian woman who has graduated from STEM degree from Harvard or IVY league, but these women have to be under certain age. Women are exploited a lot when it comes to giving birth.
Your point about how we cannot fully pay people for their bodies also reminded me of feminist discussion concerning paying stay-at-home moms for their labour.
I understand people bring it up to highlight how women's labour is undervalued.
But, can we ever truly value the labor of women? How much is the price of our mothers? How much should women be paid for giving birth? It's degrading to suggest women should be paid for this because pregnancy and motherhood are priceless. Can we translate women's value and labour to money? I don't think we can.
I agree with you. Surrogacy is just another form of exploitation of poor women and under no circumstance do I think surrogacy should be allowed and if it is allowed, there needs to be better laws to protect both the surrogate women and child rather. People can adopt kids, foster kids and do more if they can not have biological kids. Surrogacy in India and around world is done by rich women some even have 2 biological kids and by rich gay men who do not care about womens right.
My friend was telling me about rich straight and gay couples coming to the global south with lax surrogate laws, leaving their own countries where it's illegal and exploiting poorer women. It's really sad.
It is true. Just to add, some of the rich people from global south due to internalized racism and colorism also opt for surrogates so that they can have white babies or atleast light skin kids. It is weird and troublesome how surrogacy is marketed as if to make babies according to the skin color and things one wants. Similar to IVF. Apparently, in USA, people will pay 30000 USD per egg for an asian woman who has graduated from STEM degree from Harvard or IVY league, but these women have to be under certain age. Women are exploited a lot when it comes to giving birth.
Very weird. And very sad.
Very weird. And very sad.