Two populous states are on the path to legalizing commercial surrogacy, a move that’s drawing intense criticism from bioethicists, egg donors, donor-conceived children and pro-life advocates.
Legislation permitting the practice is being considered in New York and New Jersey, and the New Jersey bill, known as bill S482, which recently passed through both houses of the state legislature, is sitting on the desk of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
New Jersey Right to Life is actively opposing the proposed legislation. If Murphy does not sign, veto or conditionally veto it by May 28, it will become law.
Marie Tasy, NJRTL executive director, explained to The Christian Post in an interview on Monday that all too often an unfortunate disconnect exists in the minds of many people who advocate for the unborn on this issue as some pro-lifers have no problem with surrogacy. But the in vitro fertilization process, she explains, involves the creation of an excessive number of surplus human beings, embryos, who are frozen, used in human experimentation, or are destroyed.
“If too many of these human embryos (beings) implant in the uterine lining, or a disability is found in one or more of the human embryos, the woman is encouraged to have an abortion,” Tasy said.
In the case of the surrogacy bill on the New Jersey governor’s desk, she added, one of the legislation’s sponsors said during a hearing that the intended parents procuring the child through a surrogate can force the mother who is carrying the baby, who is referred to as the “gestational carrier,” to undergo an abortion, she said, if they demand…
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