10/17/2022
Questions put forth to Surrogacy 360:
"Under your terminology page on your website under the heading "informed consent", you are missing some important human rights value. Informed consent should also include the human right in surrogacy arrangements to know whether there will be future contact or cut contact given towards the surrogate birth mother, and what that will be, so that there can be full awareness that is vital to emotional and psychological well being before inducing a pregnancy and or binding one to a contract. As well, gender neutral terms for surrogate birth mothers is perhaps viewed by the lens of perception that a child is dependent on a person transforming themselves for the benefit of others, into a birth mother via hundreds and hundreds of doses of hormones to allow. Likewise, earned labour "maternity benefits" are donated to the intended parents which save them money. As well medical costs are covered by insurance that is directed towards supporting maternity needs. Surrogate women are not persons who surrogate. Legally a person cannot be a surrogate, as the primary consideration is that they would already have successfully given birth and are mothers. Taking away a surrogate birth mothers right to claim their role as birth mother, in order to appease others who quite frankly will never be surrogates themselves, is a form of targetted discrimination. Its like saying, give your health and life at risk to others so that they may have a child, work thousands of hours towards the tasks associated with a surrogacy event, use your earned labour maternity benefits to save others costs on having a child, be pregnant and give birth via natural or c-section for others, but don't you dare use the word "mother" because it might offend some people and because surrogacy 360 is run by "experts" who suggest that using mother is potentially offensive to others. Surely, you wouldn't say we have to tell intended mothers or intended fathers that they cannot use the word "mother" or "father" because it may offend others? Or would it be preferable for "surrogate persons" to claim all medical and hospital expenses to be covered by intended parents because being a surrogate person would mean not benefiting from any insurable services that are designated under matter of maternity ?"
