Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted a photo from a hospital bed in August 2021. He and his husband, Chasten, were fully dressed, holding their new twins. The human response is to wish them all the best and to pray for the children, if you do such things. At the same time, we can’t forget that there is someone who is missing. We, as a culture, can’t erase the mother. And yet we do.
There was a minor controversy in conservative circles around Thanksgiving. Commentator Guy Benson, who is in a same-sex marriage, similarly announced the birth of a child. Buttigieg, as far as I know, never clarified whether his twins were adopted or from a surrogate mother — it’s not absurd to ponder the latter. Benson, on the other hand, was open about surrogacy. He announced his news on social media and received congratulations and also an avalanche of responses about the morality of surrogacy.
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