How Paid Surrogacy Enables Men to Buy and Sell Women and Children

by Ardee Coolidge
Care Net

This past February, I witnessed my wife give birth to our son, Joshua. During the nine months leading to her delivery, I watched my wife become increasingly attached to the life growing within her. Joshua’s time in the womb developed a connection with his mother that grew by the day. To describe this maternal bond as a powerful one makes sense to most of us. Indeed, science continues to demonstrate that there are profound biological and psychological changes that take place in expectant mothers, changes that prepare them to care for their baby.

That’s why miscarriage cuts so deep. Women who have experienced the loss of a child growing in their wombs often mourn their deaths just like they would any other child. Assurances that the child was nothing more than a “fetus” or a “clump of cells” ring hollow for these women.

They lost their babies and they know it.

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