Rethinking surrogacy
Kim Kardashian, arguably one of the most famous women in the world, has relied on the work of two surrogates to carry and birth two of her four children, a decision that she made after experiencing common and dangerous complications—preeclampsia and placenta accreta, a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when the placenta attaches too deeply into the uterine wall—duringLa’Reina Haynes, a young black woman they hired through an agency, a reported $45,000 to be their first...
In a subsequent interview, Haynes continued to sing the praises of surrogacy. Before becoming the surrogate for Kardashian and West, she had already been a surrogate once before. “Surrogacy is a very positive movement to make, despite what others may think,” she said. “I love having been a person for someone to trust with blessing them with a miracle.”
As Kim Kardashian gets ready to welcome her new baby with Kanye West through surrogacy, I ask you how many times you have seen amagazine tabloid where a wealthy celebrity is offering to be a surrogate for her low-income housekeeper. It is the rich who can buy. It is the poor women who have to sell their eggs or rent out their wombs.Surrogacy is typically thought of in the stark, Manichean terms as laid about above.
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