Comments on: “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited” http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/01/the-handmaids-tale-revisited Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: D Metzger http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/01/the-handmaids-tale-revisited/comment-page-1#comment-19128 D Metzger Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:38:47 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/01/the-handmaids-tale-revisited#comment-19128 Look: just because you've got a problem with the idea of "wombs for rent" doesn't make it a bad thing. The issue here isn't paid surrogacy, it's if these woman are getting a fair trade for their troubles. Arguably they're not, but that doesn't make the concept of <strong>infertile</strong> couples paying someone else to go through a pregnancy for them invalid. It simply makes it, at this time, exploitive. Got any other "class war" buzzwords to add to the post? You had me until then; but then maybe I'm not liberal enough for your brand of liberal... Look: just because you’ve got a problem with the idea of “wombs for rent” doesn’t make it a bad thing. The issue here isn’t paid surrogacy, it’s if these woman are getting a fair trade for their troubles.

Arguably they’re not, but that doesn’t make the concept of infertile couples paying someone else to go through a pregnancy for them invalid. It simply makes it, at this time, exploitive.

Got any other “class war” buzzwords to add to the post? You had me until then; but then maybe I’m not liberal enough for your brand of liberal…

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