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Progressive surrogacy bill is regressive for women and children

By Charles Smith - posted Monday, 22 July 2019


The mental health repercussions on the mother and child requires careful consideration before passing this bill, along with the potential surrogacy has to cause withstanding physical harm. Very often, invitro babies are born prematurely.

I do not refute the claim that many homosexual men would be fantastic parents; that is not my issue. My issue is why as a society must we commodify the family unit, demean women and play God with reproduction when many children already require adoption or fostering?

Shouldn't those options be explored first?

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As controversial as this may be, I accept men and women are equal as humans yet they differ biologically. No amount of biological denialism and moral-posturing will negate the facts or the social consequences if this bill is passed.

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Charles Smith is in Independent member for the East Metropolitan Region in the Western Australian Legislative Council. A former police officer in regional WA, he was elected to Parliament in March 2017.

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