The Court isn’t concerned about the irreparable violence against children born through surrogacy: condemned 'for their own good', according to its logic, to live with those who bought them from their real parents.
Illegal clinics are luring high school and college-age girls in China with the promise of large payments for their eggs. The procedure can damage the girls’ health and future child-bearing, and the clinics are offering no legal or medical help if complications ensue.
Our empathy for women who have to choose between being a biological mother and bearing a healthy child should not mean we put potential children into peril.
Critics warn the technology “could also be used by polygamous or polyamorous ‘families’ to ‘create’ children biologically-related to all the adults involved in the relationship.”