God bless Martina Navratilova for her saying an honest, courageous word about surrogacy, even though she had to take it back. I’m grateful that she tried, and I’m sorry about the backlash she took in response.
The Czechoslovakia-born tennis legend — she won Wimbledon nine times — had responded to an article on egg donation: “‘Young Women’s Bodies Are Not Resources To Be Mined’: MPs Back Changes To Egg Donation Rules.” The author of the piece had posted about it on X and asked rhetorically: “Egg donations — are young women aware of the risks?” She went on to note some “cross-party MP concerns” about surrogacy in the U.K., concerns such as the commodification of women’s bodies, the exploitation of poor women “from most deprived areas,” and the use by at least one egg bank of an “AI matching service” for screening “donors.”
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