Baby boom. Criticism of surrogacy
Baby boom. Criticism of surrogacy
Experience is made up of events. Some repeat themselves without being noticed; others are so radical that they decisively change the meanings of the experience itself. Surrogacy falls into this second category, giving rise to a strange combination of 'technology' and 'carnality' in which the increase of the former marks the splitting and rarefaction of the latter.
For this reason , the practice of surrogacy represents something never seen before: with it not only the generative act is contracted out to technology, but also the maternal, which is thus broken down, assigning to three female figures what – in generation – happens in the body of the only mother. What happens during the nine months of pregnancy simply leaves the scene, on the basis of the same logic that considers the circumstances and procedures of its production irrelevant to the 'product' once finished. Yet, the levels of interpretation of the phenomenon of maternity substitution are really much more extensive. So much so that, inadvertently, a change of civilization is taking place under our gaze that exposes the status of children and of each one to the 'explosion' of the difference between 'persons' and 'things'.
At risk, therefore, is what the language of dignity has in ethics and that of love in relationships: the sense of uniqueness.
