!!! radfems are against surrogacy?
So when speaking of surrogacy, we have to look at a phenomena economists call perverse incentive. Perverse incentive is a kind of negative or unintended result of the incentive makers. For example, perverse incentive is when countries offer reduced prison sentences to inmates willing to undergo experimental trials. It creates such a strong incentive, that the disadvantaged person may agree to a risk they normally wouldn’t. Perverse incentive is the same reason we don’t allow payments for organ donation - it would create a market where desperate people take health risks to make money, or worse, create a market for harvesting organs from unwilling donors for profit.
So with surrogacy, let’s speak frankly about what it actually is: organ rental. Except it goes deeper, right? Because pregnancies carry massive health risks; from being bedridden, to experiencing labor complications, to dying during the birth. Its 9 months of your body shifting, organs reordering, diet changes, lifestyle changes, mood changes, body changes. Your body is altered, post birth. It’s an intensive, laborious process. All of that for a paycheck. But it’s a big paycheck, right? Don’t tell me that isn’t a perverse incentive.
So even if you look at all of that, even if you land on “well, it’s still a choice!”, then I’ve got more! I know we all go in with this idea that surrogacy is endearing, that it’s like the film Baby Mama with the two women romping around looking after each other, or that it’s like Kim K, where she’s put her surrogate up in luxury with every need accounted for…but that’s simply not reflective of reality.
Surrogacy has become a means of exploiting low income women in disadvantaged counties as biological resources. So while a U.S. surrogacy is going to cost $70,000, the commoditized reproductive capabilities of a poor woman in South Asia, Latin America, or Eastern Europe can cost as little as $12,000. Popular countries include Cambodia, India, Guatemala, and the Ukraine. Basically, anywhere where regulation is low. And if you think the woman is seeing even 50% of that money, you’re wrong. “Prospecting” is a common term, in which husbands, fathers, brothers, or other family or community members (including recruiters) may entice and/or coerce the women. Once chosen, most global surrogacy agencies require women to live in dormitory-style housing throughout the duration of the pregnancy. They watch what they eat, drink, do, and where they go. Nine months without autonomy. A recent study found surrogates face a higher risk for Caesarean not only because of the possibility of a multiple gestation pregnancy but in order to make the timing convenient for commissioning parents. Many women in these dormitories have many pregnancies for many different couples.
Like most markets, the consumer flocks to the cheapest option. And womens organs are rented. And women suffer.
So yes, as we do not believe womens bodies are a commodity, most radfems are opposed to surrogacy.
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