When the Australian actor Rebel Wilson announced the birth of her daughter Royce Lillian, she added the small detail that she had been born by a ‘gorgeous’ surrogate. Wilson expressed her gratitude to the woman who had carried the child for nine months before giving birth to her:
‘Thank you for helping me start my own family, it’s an amazing gift. The BEST gift!!’
A child is a human being, and obviously not a ‘present’ – although Big Fertility would have us think differently. Wilson, who had tried IVF three times without success, said that her desire to have her own baby was ‘overwhelming‘.
So overwhelming that she thought borrowing another woman’s womb was perfectly acceptable.
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How does a ‘commissioning parent’ think it feels for the birth mother to give up the baby they have gestated? The assumption is of course that the birth mother is completely detached from what is growing in her womb because she knows she’s going to have to give it away afterwards.
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