The moment I pulled my son up to my chest after a days-long and excruciating labor was wonderful, beyond my powers of description, so I will leave it to a higher authority. The Bible describes it in John 16:21: 

When a woman is in labor, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Researchers rank childbirth as one of the worst pains a human being can experience. Yet women across cultures and generations willingly experience it multiple times in their lifetime. All her agonizing pain, her physical healing, her impaired mobility, and the permanent changes to her body are sacrifices worth making for the child that is now hers. There are tragic exceptions to this outcome—like when a child is stillborn, or when a mother must choose to place her baby up for adoption upon the realization that she cannot raise him. 

But for the woman who chooses to be a surrogate for two men cosplaying at marital union, she loses out not only on her prize—however willingly she gives it up—but she also hands over that precious child to a duo that could never hope to provide for him what only she can. That child will forever have severed both a primal bond and a natural human need of a mother. As conservatives, we cannot reduce every social transaction to “consent or force” so the fact that the woman has done this willingly makes it no less barbaric or disgusting. 

In a picture circulating online, two shirtless men clutch a baby to their chest as the gasping mother grimaces from the traumatic pain she just endured. The expression on her face is a familiar one—the ordeal she just endured  explains it. But there are no burgeoning smiles or happy tears intermingled with her pain. Nurses will dab up her blood and stitch up her torn body as she anticipates several months of emotional and physical healing. Meanwhile, these men in this unnatural bond will enjoy her prize. 

Many surrogacy proponents will claim this experience is not fundamentally different from that of a mother carrying a child to term and then giving it up for adoption. But when this happens, it is because the mother selflessly decides to do what is best for the child. She has decided it is better for her baby to be raised by another loving family than herself, who is perhaps too young or too poor or too sick to give that child a good life. It is a noble thing, because it seeks to put the child in the best possible situation at no small cost to the birth mother.

Surrogacy is unnatural and gay surrogacy, especially, is repugnant. You feel it in your gut. Under no other circumstance would our enlightened world think that the commodification of a mother’s body and the bartering of her child are anything other than that. The left constantly warns of a coming Handmaid’s Tale where this kind of thing is a feature, not a bug—but only as they imagine it applies to abortion.

Yet when the rainbow mafia are involved, we are asked to suspend all other considerations of human rights for their comfort. Gay couples have long envied a heterosexual couple’s ability to produce children via their union. Their barrenness frustrates them because it is a scientific reality that places homosexuality in stark contrast to the natural form of marriage that they mimic. Their cruel jealousy will halt at no evil to attain some ridiculous imitation of childbearing.

In the dystopian novel Brave New World, science has triumphed to such a degree that women don’t have their own babies anymore. When one of the book’s characters visits a less progressed society, “The spectacle of two young women giving the breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.” Yet we have already laid the groundwork for such natural displays of motherly attentiveness to cause the viewer to blush. In a world where scientific advancement makes the central question less about whether we should do something and more about if we can do it, then there is nothing preventing a baby from leaving his mother if he can get adequate caloric and vitamin intake elsewhere.

Children are not commodities to be bought and sold on the open market to appease the latest degeneracies foisted upon us by the LGBTQ mob. It is important in this debate to keep one’s proverbial “gag reflex” well trained. The shock and disgust you feel when you see a bedazzled long-haired man with a beard playing mommy to a baby is entirely normal. What’s strange is that any of this is defended by people who fancy themselves the enlightened ones.