A two day long international child expo took place in Brussels over the weekend. No, this isn’t about an expo for products for children, but trading actual, real children in the form of surrogacy.
The event conducted by the pro-LGBT Men Having Babies organization has an itinerant character, with the organization moving to different locales to promote its activities on a regular basis. In September, the organization held its event in Paris, in October in Taipei and in December it will take place in Tel Aviv.
The goods being sold are children and the buyers are rich gay men who can afford to spend between $90,000 to $150,000.
Included in the price is not only the chance to rent a uterus for nine months, but also legal assistance, ova and semen delivery, and coverage of travel expenses.
Due to the pandemic, the expo has a hybrid character — some of it is in-person while other parts are conducted online. Gay couples are invited to booths to check out prospectuses, and given the wide selection of products, it appears that many have difficulty even making up their minds. You can choose a race, gender, hair, eye color, and other attributes for the child.
Women are being treated like broodmares because that is their only job. No one is asking for their opinions, feelings, dreams, or plans. They’re simply females whose usefulness has been reduced to the uterus.
The fair takes place in Brussels despite commercial surrogacy being banned in the country. In all reality, if such deals are being made and uteri are being used like incubators, then it is clear this law no longer has any relevancy.
In this context, it is perhaps no surprise that the first transgender deputy prime minister in European history, Petra de Sutter, was appointed in Brussels. De Sutter, an LGBT activist, is demanding legalization of surrogacy across all of Europe.
Now, everything points to a new battle in the cultural war, this time concerning the legalization of surrogacy.
There is no doubt that we’re dealing with a form of enslaving women and human trafficking. Surrogacy tramples on human dignity in every aspect. It is likely that nearly all the women involved would not freely agree to being a broodmare and giving birth to a child for gay couples if they were not forced to do so by tragic financial situations.
It is also not a coincidence that surrogates are recruited from poor countries.
Yet in the West, a whole media campaign has been initiated to revalue and switch the meanings concerning this issue. What is in reality the debasement of women and instrumentalization of children is being presented by the media as a great good and human right. Sentimental stories about celebrities, such as Elton John or Ricky Martin, who bought children from surrogacy and proudly display them are meant to legitimize this shameful procedure.
The fact that rich men are using poor women is being covered up by touching stories about happy children in gay families and sublime slogans about human rights.
A few more years of this brainwashing and public opinion will change. We’ve already seen that what was treated as a deviancy 20 years ago, today is seen as a cultural, social and legal norm.
It very well might be that surrogacy — the enslavement of women and child trade — will be considered a human right and thousands will go out onto the streets to protect that right at some point in the near future.
