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UN Expert Urges Global Ban on Surrogacy
Faith Facts
- The United Nations Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem has called for a worldwide ban on all forms of surrogacy.
- The report describes surrogacy as inflicting exploitation and violence on women and children, violating their dignity and rights.
- Italy became the first nation to ban surrogacy both domestically and abroad, influencing other countries to consider similar measures.
Reem Alsalem warned the global community about the grave dangers of surrogacy, urging the adoption of international laws to prohibit the practice in order to protect women and children.
Her latest report recommends criminalizing surrogacy, outlawing advertisements, and extending vital support to women harmed by these arrangements.
“Surrogacy is clearly responsible for inflicting large-scale violence, abuse, and exploitation on women and children,” Alsalem said.
The report highlights that even so-called ‘altruistic’ surrogacy exploits vulnerable women and treats children as commodities, undermining the sanctity of life and the family unit.
“An inherent concern in surrogacy lies in the contractual programming of separation between a woman and the child she carries,” the report states. “These risks treating the child as a passive object of an agreement between adults or as a commodity.”
Italy’s leadership in banning surrogacy echoes a broader commitment to protect motherhood and wholesome family values, pressing other nations to follow suit for the sake of the next generation.
Eugenia Rocella, Italy’s minister for family, natality, and equal opportunities, said, “Existing international treaties on the protection of women’s and children’s rights should be updated to explicitly include surrogacy as a practice that undermines dignity and entails exploitation.”
ADF International and allied organizations support this initiative, emphasizing that true justice recognizes every child’s right to a mother and the respect due to every woman’s God-given worth.
“Surrogacy rests on a system of violence that dehumanizes women and children alike,” said Giorgio Mazzoli, ADF International’s director of UN advocacy. “States must develop a coordinated international response to end the grave human rights violations inherent in this practice.”
This global movement to end surrogacy upholds Biblical principles of life, dignity, and the natural family, urging faithful citizens everywhere to pray and take a stand against the commodification of God’s precious creation.