HERE’S a nice bit of propaganda for baby selling. A British woman, Tara Sawyer, says she is so “addicted” to being pregnant that she is happy to be a surrogate mother and will continue to bear — and give away — as many children as possible, reportedly for no pay. She is the maternal counterpart of all those British women who go on binge drinking sprees in pubs. But she gets pregnant instead. She’s a gestational drunk. In keeping with her narcissistic view of pregnancy as something that is good because it makes a woman feel high, she says she has felt no attachment to the three babies she has given away to homosexuals, even though they were her biological children. Her husband goes along. Supposedly no pay is involved, so technically we cannot call him a pimp. The British national health service subsidizes it too.

How did Tara’s story end up in the newspaper? Did an enterprising reporter come across Tara? Or did someone who profits from surrogacy contact the newspaper? We will never know. But one thing we do know is that the baby-selling industry in the United States and Britain is big and there is almost no chance of it being ended under our existing political order.

Maybe Sawyer did not, as she says, accept any money for surrogacy, even though her husband is a truck driver, but most cases of surrogacy are commercial transactions. And the overwhelmingly normal experience is for a woman to feel some attachment to the child in her womb, not to view pregnancy as a physically exhilarating experience akin to jogging.

The children she has given away to homosexuals and those she has kept, who have witnessed these freakish transactions, will have something to say someday about all this. That’s the interesting thing about children. Their reactions are so often delayed. By decades. If you have not yet seen the movie Breeders, I highly recommend it for a more realistic view of surrogacy.

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