Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer
The demand for surrogacy has grown, fueled not only by the rise in infertility but also by an increase in the acceptability of renting wombs to the highest bidder.
The rise of womb renting among the fashionably rich and famous. Kim Kardashian’s multiple surrogate pregnancies were not the first to make front-page news, but they arguably made it socially popular.
Kim’s sister, Khloe Kardashian, opened up about her surrogacy experience, admitting she felt it was “transactional.”
“But a surrogate process — Kim knows — is very hard for me. It’s a mindf*ck. It is really the weirdest thing,” Kardashian said. “[I do feel less connected]. People do say it takes a minute to feel connected but Kim said hers was easy. This is not easy.”
“I felt really guilty that this woman just had my baby and then I take the baby and I go to another room.” – Khloe Kardashian on her surrogacy pic.twitter.com/q02f4lEMsC
— Brittany Hugoboom (@BritHugoboom) May 25, 2023
Still, celebrities and wealthy elites are using the service in mass, seemingly forgoing the natural process of pregnancy in order to avoid the typical “side effects” like weight gain and childbirth. Actress Lily Collins announced Saturday that she and her husband had welcomed their first child via a surrogate. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
Our elites are signaling that they aren’t willing to sacrifice their job, body, or status for pregnancy. It won’t be long until society as a whole sees pregnancy as a poor woman’s job. Paying for a surrogate is already a status symbol. Unless a couple is willing to set up a fundraiser to help cover the costs, only the wealthiest can afford the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to pay for the practice.
But at what cost do female surrogates pay?
While several forms of surrogacy are available to those willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, society has breathlessly promoted two as a “common good” in most media stories: altruistic surrogacy and commercial surrogacy.
Commercial surrogacy is exploitative, cruel & treats women like brood mares.
UK ‘altruistic’ model is no better. Large sums of money changing hands, babies often not seeing their mothers again, women left with regret & birth injuries.
Stop surrogacy now.https://t.co/c0IpeM1Jun
— SurrogacyConcern (@SurrogConcern) June 22, 2023
Altruistic typically involves an infertile couple seeking the help of a family member or friend to carry their child. Sometimes, this means a fertilized egg (using the couple’s egg and sperm) is implanted into the woman’s womb via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), but it could also mean using a donor egg and/or sperm. Commercial surrogacy is a similar process, except instead of being a “gift” or “free” act, the pregnant woman is typically paid for her services.
Regardless of the payment situation, these instances are promoted on national morning shows as selfless acts by women who want to see an infertile couple have a child. As a mother, it’s hard not to sympathize with a couple desperate to have children. And as our American fertility and population rates continue to decline, there is a part of any rational thinker that questions why surrogacy would be a bad thing. (ROOKE: Nation’s Report Card Just Came Out Revealing Shocking Truth Parents Need To Know)
However, like everything in our increasingly pagan society. What could be seen as a “common good” idea to help a couple while also increasing the population has been bastardized by turning wombs, women, and unborn children into a commodity without a second thought to the damages brought on our society.
Let’s dive into the pharmaceutical component of surrogacy. To become a surrogate, women are required to take a series of medications we know are harmful to women.
Look at the list of drugs surrogate mothers must take.
Look at what is on the list. pic.twitter.com/294rP5IPNv
— SurrogacyConcern (@SurrogConcern) January 25, 2024
For the first two months, these women are required to take birth control, which prevents the conception of her “biological child” to ensure the womb is ready for someone else’s. Birth control increases a woman’s risk of infertility, blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, depression, mood swings, cervical cancer, liver damage, and gallbladder disease. Most doctors praise this drug as if it cures all the ailments plaguing women.
Hey NBC, the gaslighting women about birth control side effects trope is getting old, don’t you think?
Hormonal birth control has been proven to:
– increase risk of blood clots and stroke
– increase risk for certain cancers like breast, ovarian, and liver cancer
– perpetuate… pic.twitter.com/HfWMjEnoNR— Evie Magazine (@Evie_Magazine) July 6, 2023
After the woman successfully prevents her own pregnancy for two months, she is placed on Lupron for 2-3 weeks. If Lupron rings a bell in your head, it’s because the drug has become somewhat of a household name due to its rise in usage as a “puberty blocker” for confused children captured in the insidious transgender cult. It is also used to castrate criminal sex offenders.
For surrogates, Lupron prevents the usual hormone exchange that causes follicle production and ovulation by suppressing pituitary stimulation to the ovaries. While these women are only on Lupron for 2-3 weeks, the drug is known to stay in their system for months after the dosage ends. (ROOKE: The Nerds Are Unknowingly Creating Perfect Storm Targeting Americans)
The medical industry has not studied the long-term effects of surrogates taking Lupron. However, we do know that more than 10,000 adverse event reports have been filed with the FDA from women taking Lupron because it causes a myriad of side effects, including a decrease in bone density, which leads to osteoporosis and chronic pain.
Then, after pumping the surrogate full of birth control, Lupron, and aspirin, these women are required to replace all the estrogen and progesterone suppressed earlier in the process via patches, creams, and injections.
And finally, regardless of whether a pregnant woman is carrying her own biological child or someone else’s, she will go through a process called fetal microchimerism, in which she will receive DNA from the unborn baby when fetal cells cross the placenta and enter the woman’s bloodstream. While some of the baby’s cells will clear out of the woman two months after birth, others have been found in a mother’s bone marrow and other organs for decades. (ROOKE: What Were They Thinking? Pentagon Employees Use Work Computers To Access Chinese AI Chatbot)
This baby becomes a part of her, and vice versa, regardless of the pregnant mother’s parental responsibility. Whether society wants to admit this or not, having someone’s DNA coursing through your bloodstream and then seeing that person ripped away and given to another to raise is going to have a psychological effect.
Whether you’ve had a miscarriage or an abortion – your deceased baby will continue to fight for your life. ❤️
“Fetal microchimerism (FMc) is a fascinating biological phenomenon where a small number of cells from a fetus cross the placenta and integrate into the mother’s body,… pic.twitter.com/O8snPMiFbl
— Live Action (@LiveAction) December 25, 2024
Of course, popular surrogacy websites leave this part out (and flat-out lie) when trying to talk women into renting their wombs.
“Because you share no DNA with, and are not genetically related to, the baby you are carrying, a surrogate pregnancy is different from your own pregnancy,” ConceiveAbilities states.
The idea that we would normalize “womb rentals” as if this wouldn’t cause long-term societal deterioration is the mark of a dying culture that can’t see the blatant warning signs flashing in front of our eyes. It is not healthy for a society to allow elites to status signal using pregnancy. Left-wing activists love to point to “A Handmaid’s Tale” as a cautionary story about “forced birth” while wholeheartedly supporting the indentured servitude of women strictly for their fertile wombs.
While we grapple with the reality of rapidly decreasing fertility and birth rates in the U.S., we cannot allow the practice of surrogacy to be a fix-all for our societal problems.
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