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Such a good comment on this Mumsnet thread about a gushing puff piece in @thetimes about #surrogacy https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4149123-Another-gushing-story-in-The-Times-about-surrogacy
“One of the difficulties in talking about this is that, just as with trans issues, an individual's experience/individual journey is always centred in these articles. That makes it difficult to challenge because - as in this story - there is an individual and worse,...”
“...a child at the centre who quite rightly should be protected from criticism.
Thus if you raise objections, you're seen as mean or unkind. Puff pieces like this appear to be replacing informed discussion in the media about the issues.”
Thus if you raise objections, you're seen as mean or unkind. Puff pieces like this appear to be replacing informed discussion in the media about the issues.”
“We've seen this tactic before as women's right's have been steadily appropriated by males demanding access to them by centring their own stories of unhappiness and demands that women are used to resolve them. Now it's women's bodies and children's rights being used...”
“... to fill the gap in unhappy men's lives and the tactics are the same.
I believe there's even some evidence of regulatory capture by the normal suspects in the current government review of surrogacy?”
I believe there's even some evidence of regulatory capture by the normal suspects in the current government review of surrogacy?”
