Author: unitedfamilies

Another story of a wealthy celebrity using surrogates to have children is raising questions about a “Handmaid’s Tale” epidemic — not due to abortion, but because women’s bodies are quite literally being used to create offspring for the wealthy elite… Wealthy clients all too often tend to treat their bodies as property, buying insurance in case the woman’s body doesn’t perform on demand as expected, or forcing a surrogate into abortion if the preborn child she’s carrying has a disability, if she has too many multiples, or even if the baby is the “wrong” gender.

In April this year, Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota signed a bill protecting babies from week six of gestation – the point at which a heartbeat can be detected. Since the landmark ruling of the US Supreme Court, this is the 13th state to introduce strict safeguards to protect the unborn.