Something Nasty is Brewing in The Hague (and in the EU) by Patricia Merino Murga Published in El Común 24/01/2024. https://elcomun.es/2024/01/25/algo-feo-se-esta-cocinando-en-la-haya-y-en-la-ue/ Surrogate motherhood is one of the most promising emerging global industries today. And so it is in the classic capitalist tradition: the outright exploitation of nature, huge profit margins and fantastic growth prospects (in 2022 the business was estimated to be worth 14 billion dollars, for 2032 the prospects are 129 billion [1] ). All this points to a situation where surrogacy will be the characteristic form of extractivism of the new transhumanist capitalism of the 21st century. The commodification of motherhood has been going on for four decades. Current legal and medical techniques make this new form of defining and socially legitimizing human reproduction possible. The key to it is the denial, derision, and trivialization of motherhood, despite the f
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