At the UN, Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calls for the universal abolition of surrogacy: a historic turning point for women’s and children’s rights.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Ms. Reem Alsalem, today delivered an unprecedented call from the podium of the General Assembly for the universal abolition of surrogacy.
• “Women used as surrogates are subjected to physical, psychological, and economic violence. Their dignity and fundamental rights are violated,” she declared.
• “Children born through surrogacy are separated at birth from the only mother they have ever known. To be born through surrogacy is to begin life with rupture and loss.”
• “No society can progress by normalizing the sale of women’s bodies. This is not love, it is violence.”
• Ms. Alsalem emphasized that, “like prostitution, surrogacy exploits women for being women,” and advised States:
• “We must criminalize those who buy and profit: never the women themselves.”
• “The goal must be clear: to abolish surrogacy in all its forms.”
Source: Historic: UN Special Rapporteur calls for global abolition of surrogacy