By Jennifer Roback Morse

This article was first published at The Blaze on May 4, 2016.

I am an outspoken critic of gestational surrogacy, in which the gestational mother carries a child to term for another person or couple. I have noticed that many people do not understand the stakes in this issue. Pro-life people think, “gosh, surrogacy makes babies, how can that be bad?” Feminists think, “gosh, surrogacy allows people to meet their reproductive goals, how can that be bad?”

Read on. Surrogacy has something to offend everyone.


Pro-life Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

Every surrogacy procedure retrieves eggs and fertilizes them outside the body. These are now tiny human beings. (That is why adults are willing to pay for them.)

Pro-woman Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

Pro-child Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

Progressive Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

Pro-liberty Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

And the ultimate pro-liberty reason to oppose surrogacy:

With all these disadvantages of surrogacy, we should look for other solutions to the problems that surrogacy is supposed to solve. We need natural solutions, such as NaPro Technology, for medical infertility. We need more love between men and women to solve the socially-caused infertility of being unable to find a suitable co-parent of the opposite sex.

Whether you are progressive or conservative, feminist or pro-life, straight or gay, surrogacy is not the answer.