A recent story from the pro-life group Live Action underscores how commercial surrogacy contracts turn women and unborn children into commodities.
In commercial surrogacy, corporate agencies hire women to carry children for paying customers. But if those customers back out of the contract, they may pressure the surrogate to abort the child. Live Action writes:
Brittneyrose Torres was a surrogate carrying triplets, 2 boys and 1 girl.
— Live Action (@LiveAction) July 1, 2026
The buyers told her to abort the girl.
Brittneyrose was to receive at least $25- 30k for carrying one baby and $5,000 extra for carrying two or more in her contract with the parents.
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Unlike many other countries, the United States has relatively few restrictions on surrogacy — and that’s a problem.
News outlets have reported that a sex offender convicted of crimes involving children was able to obtain a child through surrogacy in Pennsylvania as a result of lax state regulations.
The Daily Wire recently visited several homes in Houston that the State of Texas says are helping Chinese nationals travel to the U.S. on tourist visas “for the sole purpose of giving birth.”
Last year The Wall Street Journal uncovered how Chinese billionaires are taking advantage of America’s surrogacy industry to create what some call “mega-families” with dozens or even hundreds of children.
The Wall Street Journal also has written about allegations of financial fraud among commercial surrogacy businesses.
In December, The New York Times and NBC News both reported about investigations into a surrogacy agency that abruptly shutdown, causing clients to lose an estimated $2 – $5 million total.
The list goes on.
Stories like these underscore why social commentators and policymakers worldwide have raised concerns about commercial surrogacy.
It’s bad when commercial surrogacy goes wrong — but it’s important to remember that surrogacy never “goes right” either.
Commercial surrogacy deliberately deprives children of their biological mothers or fathers.
It treats pregnancy like a “service” that can be purchased, and it treats women like commodities.
Human beings are not products that can be made to order and sold at a profit, but that is what commercial surrogacy does to unborn children. That’s why it’s essential for policymakers to enact real restrictions on commercial surrogacy contracts and agencies.
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