A French feminist group, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ICASM), asked candidates in this month’s European election candidates to support the abolition of surrogacy.
In its open letter, it says: “Surrogacy violates the rights of children and the rights of women by contributing to a society based on the use and abuse of persons, organizing a first and second class of human beings, promoting an unequal global order discriminatory between human beings.”
It demands not just more regulation for surrogacy, but its abolition.
ICASM contends that surrogacy commercialises women’s bodies, promotes the sale of children, increases inequality between women, and does not satisfy rights claims (it claims that there is no right to motherhood or to children), among other objections to legalising surrogacy.
