When people think about surrogacy, it’s always from the adult’s perspective- the infertile couple with no way to have children, or the gay couple who needs a “surrogate angel” to complete their family. But there are very real risks to children when we commercialize their separation from their birth mother. Here are just a few examples of surrogacy gone horribly wrong, with some suggestions for Washington lawmakers on how to curtail the devastation.  Of course, even children created through reproductive technologies who grow up in the “best case” scenario still suffer loss.  That’s why many donor-conceived children oppose all forms of surrogacy and third-party reproduction. Washington lawmakers, are your really comfortable creating a state-sanctioned global marketplace of children in your state? Because that’s what SB 6037 will do. When children created in scenarios like those below ask why you approved of their commodification, what will you tell them? Mass-Produced Babies In 2014, Japanese millionaire Mitsutoki Shigeta fathered 12-15 children through several surrogates in Thailand. He wanted a “big family” but neither lives in Thailand nor has a relationship with the children. Cases such as his prompted Thailand to ban surrogacy in 2016.  Nothing in SB 6037 prohibits children from being mass-produced … Continue reading Disaster Surrogacy Cases Sanctioned by Washington State’s SB 6037