Israelis swooped into Nepal after a huge earthquake to grab babies from surrogate mothers exploited by some gay couples for rent-a-womb purposes<\/a>. \u00a0Too bad for you, moms. \u00a0You got your pittance. \u00a0Now we\u2019ll just rip those babies from your arms and leave you to your fates because we are enlightened Westerners.<\/p>\nFeminism for the win. Reducing women to incubators and children to products for accessorizing the choices of self-involved consumers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026just not for white western women: Today there are parts of the world in which renting the womb of a poor woman is indeed ten times cheaper than in the US. The choice of wealthy white couples to implant embryos in the bodies of brown women is seen, not as colonialist exploitation, but as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[909],"class_list":["post-100079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-women-are-not-incubators-and-babies-are-not-consumer-goods"],"yoast_head":"\n
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