代理出産

 

今日は欧米でのLGBTカップルの子作りについて人と話し合ったので、メモ。

Commercial surrogacy is a rigged market in wombs for rent | Julie Bindel https://t.co/6rbmWZxipX

— suzuky (@suzuky) April 7, 2021

 Since the disgraceful Baby Gammy case last year, in which an Australian couple left a twin boy with his birth mother when it was discovered he had Down’s syndrome, Thailand has banned foreigners and same-sex couples from accessing surrogacy services.

 Women in the global south are often pimped by husbands and criminal gangs into renting their wombs to rich western couples.

Gestational surrogates are required to take Lupron, oestrogen and progesterone medication to help achieve the pregnancy, all of which treatments can have serious side effects.

While the gestational surrogates tend to be poor women disadvantaged in many ways, egg donors are often chosen (from catalogues) for their “strong genes” and lack of mental and physical ill health in their lineage. The process is not that far removed from eugenics.

メモ　Surrogacy Is Complicated. Just Ask New York. https://t.co/xENxeF57ja

— suzuky (@suzuky) April 7, 2021

The oft-cited Baby M case, in which a New Jersey woman who was a traditional surrogate for a couple in 1985 decided she wanted to keep the baby after giving birth, resulted in the decision of some states, including New York, to ban surrogacy. The New Jersey Supreme Court gave custody of the baby, referred to as “Baby M,” to the couple.



Disagreements can arise, for instance, if the intended family and the surrogate have differing opinions on what to do if the fetus develops Down syndrome or if the surrogate unintentionally becomes pregnant with triplets.

The letter, which was signed by 10 other medical experts, urged lawmakers to consider the health risks that surrogates might undertake, which they described as “above and beyond the risks of normal pregnancy and childbirth.”

代理出産と言われる場合、代理妊婦が自分の卵子を使う場合と第３者の卵子を使う場合があって、後者がほとんど。代理妊婦は貧困国の貧困女性で卵子提供者は富裕国の優秀な女性の場合も多い。となると、

１）依頼カップルと代理人妊婦の経済格差による搾取

２）優秀な血筋を残すために作為するという優生学 と同様な問題

また、

３）生まれてくる子供がダウン症や三つ子といった依頼カップルが望んでないようだった場合や、代理妊婦が産んだ子供の親権を主張した場合どうするか、といった問題や

４）代理出産する妊婦の健康の問題

などがある、と。

代理妊婦になる動機としては、経済的以外に、喜んでもらえるという満足感もある、と。

ーーゲイカップルが養子以外で子供を育てたいという場合、起きうる問題ですね。