Now *this* is a *real* horror story! I think Baby-farming is heinous & immoral! Women should not be incubators. Babies ought not to be products.
>American surrogacy is an enormous industry, taking in approximately $5 billion in 2024, and the practice is expected to explode globally almost tenfold in the next decade. It seems especially popular in Silicon Valley, where a growing cadre of investors and executives, from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Dropbox’s Drew Houston, have used it to grow their families. More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A shocking number of techies now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction.
>But intended parents and gestational carriers—IPs and GCs, as they’re somewhat dehumanizingly known—are often uninformed about the dearth of regulation and completely unprepared for what can go wrong. Only one state, New York, requires agencies to be licensed. Although America is the world leader in surrogacy, it’s also the developed nation with the highest maternal mortality rate and one of the highest stillbirth rates, a situation described by many as “a public health crisis.” Compared to natural conception, carrying a genetically unrelated fetus more than triples the risk of severe, potentially deadly conditions, a statistic surrogates are rarely given. IPs do not always have to disclose complete medical information, including histories of certain conditions that may harm their GCs. They don’t have to be honest about how many kids they have, why they are hiring a surrogate, or how many other surrogates they have simultaneously pregnant. Do you really know who is carrying your child—or whose child you are carrying?
>Meanwhile, the US is torn over who controls a pregnant woman’s body. The increasing acceptance of “fetal personhood” means that, in many states, losing a pregnancy can be charged as a felony and potentially punished with life in prison. This is thorny enough when it’s a woman’s own baby. It’s exponentially more fraught when the carrier isn’t the parent.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-baby-died-whose-fault-is-it-surrogate-pregnancy/
PG
npub1lr…n6g3v
2025-10-13 12:41:24 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1lr0nqkeal0d9qk0axcrv5v0ckuavylfr0mchn0f4wwr4v8pgzcnsjn6g3vSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2025-10-13 12:41:24 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "97b1ec188fa1fd81f09f5e54afd0be3d27f3d60287c76c5bf449ecf48b024abf",
"pubkey": "f8df305b3dfbda5059fd3606ca31f8b73ac27d237ef179bd357387561c281627",
"created_at": 1760359284,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://spinster.xyz/objects/a023b91a-a101-4903-9ff2-c7c493b3f05d",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://spinster.xyz/objects/a023b91a-a101-4903-9ff2-c7c493b3f05d",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "Now *this* is a *real* horror story! I think Baby-farming is heinous \u0026 immoral! Women should not be incubators. Babies ought not to be products.\n\n\u003eAmerican surrogacy is an enormous industry, taking in approximately $5 billion in 2024, and the practice is expected to explode globally almost tenfold in the next decade. It seems especially popular in Silicon Valley, where a growing cadre of investors and executives, from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Dropbox’s Drew Houston, have used it to grow their families. More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A shocking number of techies now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction.\n\n\u003eBut intended parents and gestational carriers—IPs and GCs, as they’re somewhat dehumanizingly known—are often uninformed about the dearth of regulation and completely unprepared for what can go wrong. Only one state, New York, requires agencies to be licensed. Although America is the world leader in surrogacy, it’s also the developed nation with the highest maternal mortality rate and one of the highest stillbirth rates, a situation described by many as “a public health crisis.” Compared to natural conception, carrying a genetically unrelated fetus more than triples the risk of severe, potentially deadly conditions, a statistic surrogates are rarely given. IPs do not always have to disclose complete medical information, including histories of certain conditions that may harm their GCs. They don’t have to be honest about how many kids they have, why they are hiring a surrogate, or how many other surrogates they have simultaneously pregnant. Do you really know who is carrying your child—or whose child you are carrying?\n\n\u003eMeanwhile, the US is torn over who controls a pregnant woman’s body. The increasing acceptance of “fetal personhood” means that, in many states, losing a pregnancy can be charged as a felony and potentially punished with life in prison. This is thorny enough when it’s a woman’s own baby. It’s exponentially more fraught when the carrier isn’t the parent.\n\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-baby-died-whose-fault-is-it-surrogate-pregnancy/",
"sig": "8d5fa0879f747b33931a4bbb0ac7a707993dd4cda2c481300b5007e28c8379ded1f2bae81ed3c8fe5b7d127d4fb2e8dd5e70833a0e29d133dfb6538e462d302d"
}