I am so tired of the whole “cool pope” thing with Francis. It’s 100% PR.

  • DontTakeMySky@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    Im not sure I can be so confident just because the surrogate knows the couple. If anything that would make me more worried about coercion. That could easily add MORE pressure for a surrogate to take on the pregnancy if that surrogate knows how important it is to the couple.

    • Kalysta@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      My coworker had to use a surrogate to have a kid because of her infertility issues. I promise you, there was no coercion. When you regulate things it’s much easier to ensure everyone is consenting. The problems happen when you ban shit and drive it underground.

      • DontTakeMySky@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 months ago

        That’s amazing, I’m glad your coworker was able to find someone and get to be a parent.

        I’m sorry if I came across as advocating against surrogacy. I don’t nearly know enough to have that strong of an opinion on it in either direction. All I wanted to get across was that making sure there’s no coercion is hard. Not impossible, but hard. There were some really sweeping statements under this post that felt like they were oversimplifications and I wanted to consider the nuance.