#To clarify I’m not sure i’m 100% opposed to surrogacy I could maybe support it in situations where someone was doing it for a loved one

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so you agree? you agree it’s impossible to meaningfully establish consent when money is being exchanged? especially if the woman accepting the money is most often from an impoverished and/or marginalised group which makes surrogacy an appealing option? so you agree you shouldn’t be able to buy access to a woman’s body? especially for something that exposes them to great physical risk? you agree that individuals willingly choosing to become surrogates and reporting positive experiences doesn’t stop it from being an inherently exploitative framework in which the surrogate is always at a disadvantage no matter how good the pay or conditions? you’re capable of thinking about this through a structural and material lens rather than a purely individualistic one??

Can someone explain to me why being anti -surrogacy is a relatively uncontroversial, respectable and mainstream opinion among feminists/leftists (as that recent poll attests) but criticising sex work is a regarded as regressive if not ontologically evil