Although surrogacy dispenses with each of these mothers on an as-desired basis, children naturally need all three.
Each mother offers something that children need, and indeed, have a right to. If we want to spare children the pain of the primal wound, genealogical bewilderment, and mother hunger, we will oppose surrogacy and insist that, except in tragic cases, all three mothers reside in the same woman.
That’s probably the woman for whom you have gone all out to celebrate this weekend, knowing that you simply wouldn’t be the same person without her.
We either can celebrate Mother’s Day or we can celebrate surrogacy, but we can’t do both.
Katy Faust