Surrogacy Makes the Body a Worksite

“In 2019, no one should have to forfeit the joy of raising their child,” Bravo host Andy Cohen told reporters in Albany on June 11th, “not in an era where modern medicine is performing new miracles every day.” Cohen, the father of a five-month-old son born through surrogacy, was in New York’s capital advocating for the passage of the Child-Parent Security Act (CPSA), a bill that would have legalized commercial gestational surrogacy in the state. Cohen is one of many celebrity parents who have recently made headlines for hiring a surrogate to carry a child. In May, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s fourth child Psalm was born via a surrogate. Psalm was the second of the couple’s children to be carried by a paid surrogate—a decision Kim announced after complications from placenta accreta. In January 2018, the couple’s third child, Chicago, was also born through the work of a surrogate. But Kim and Kanye aren’t the only celebrities who have employed gestational laborers: Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade’s daughter was born by surrogate late last year. Then there are gay parents like Cohen and Elton John who have both hired surrogates to expand their families. The sometimes breathless coverage of celebrities… Read full this story

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