On TikTok, a gay couple posted a video explaining how they chose their “beautiful egg donor.” Stuart explains, “I wanted her to have lovely big eyes, I wanted her to have really thick hair because I’ve had two hair transplants.” He laughs. “I wanted her to have a really wide, nice smile. And just look like a kind person.”
After flicking through an online catalogue, Francis details how they had “a few Zoom calls” with their favorite donors. Two let them down. “Fuming!” Stuart exclaims. “Luckily,” though, a third agreed.
these gay dudes talking about choosing a surrogate sound like they’re picking out a dog in a pet store 💀
I’m becoming RADICALIZED lmaoo pic.twitter.com/3LUoFdsjhJ
— Iced Caramel Pagliaccino ☕️ (@Slatzism) July 23, 2022
A couple of quick points:
- Children aren’t commodities. Deliberately engineering a situation in which a child is deprived of his mother (or father) is wrong.
- Women’s bodies aren’t commodities. Harvesting and selling women’s eggs or renting out their wombs is demeaning. The correct term for this “egg donor” is mother.