In a recent episode of The Kardashians, Khloé Kardashian spoke out about her negative experience with surrogacy after using another woman to give birth to her new son in 2022.
“I felt really guilty that this woman just had my baby. Then I take the baby and go to another room, and you’re separated,” Kardashian said. “I felt it was such a transactional experience.”
Kardashian’s remarks shed light on the commodification of women’s bodies and the impact on the children born through surrogacy — an issue radical feminists have been raising for nearly half a century since the practice began to rise to prominence.
Last month, feminist activist group SCUM made headlines with their disruptive non-violent protest against surrogacy at the Cannes Film Festival. The protest featured a heavily pregnant woman with a barcode printed across her belly, and the message “STOP SELLING US.” The protest appeared to be met on social media with widespread support.
Source: Is Public Perception Finally Turning Against Surrogacy? — Women’s Liberation Front
The commodification of the womb is what this is about.
Actually, the commodification of the wombs of financially poor women.
For the rich mainly and so gay male couples can have babies even though men don’t have wombs.