Former “Bachelor” star and self-described Christian Colton Underwood made headlines a few years ago when he came out as gay.
Now, Underwood and her husband, Jordan C. Brown, have announced that they are expecting a baby boy via surrogate in the fall. Underwood has been trying to become a dad for two years and even produced a podcast called “Daddyhood.”
“Most of the time it’s boys.” Allie Beth Stuckey Underwood explained that he had been struggling with his sperm count before he found “egg sellers.”
“The reason we don’t say egg donors is because they’re called egg donors for technical reasons. Selling human tissue is illegal in the United States, and egg donors claim they’re actually being paid for their time and effort, not for the eggs,” Stuckey says.
“But we all know the truth: they’re not donating eggs, they’re selling eggs,” she added.
In an interview with Men’s Health magazine, Underwood explained that he and his husband wanted “The Egg Seller” to be “someone with depth and coolness.”
“I believe in nurture over nature, so give us the foundation and we can show this child love,” he continued.
Stuckey disagreed, quipping, “You’re denying that children need mothers, so I’m not sure you really believe in nature.”
Ms Underwood likened the process of searching for “egg sellers” to using a dating app, something Ms Stuckey also found uncomfortable. Shane Dawson, a YouTuber who had a baby boy with his husband through IVF, likened it to looking through a catalogue.
“They literally look through a catalogue of women, not that different from prostitution, and choose who will be their genetic mother,” Stuckey said.
But it’s not as simple as just choosing a woman and donating your sperm.
“First, eggs are collected from what’s called an egg donor. Then there’s the process of in vitro fertilization, where the sperm from the two men is mixed with the collected eggs to create an embryo from that genetic material, and then that created, or selected, embryo is implanted into another woman,” Stuckey explains.
The woman will act as a surrogate mother and will have to take hormones to prepare her body for the foreign object that will be implanted in her uterus.
“This is very dangerous to the embryo, by the way, and also very dangerous to the health of the surrogate mother because it’s a very unnatural process,” Stuckey says. “The woman’s body can reject this tiny embryo.”
The reason for using an “egg seller” in addition to a surrogate mother is also completely unnatural.
“Why should there be legal separation? Because neither woman can claim motherhood, neither woman can claim to have a bond with the child. The law recognizes that there is a strong and intense biological bond between a mother and her child,” Stuckey said.
“It will only be easier for everyone except the baby, who will never know his or her biological mother and who, at the moment of birth, is taken from the only body, the only woman and the only home he or she has ever known.”
“Again, this is far worse treatment than we would treat puppies or kittens in the US, where by law they must stay with their mothers for the first six to 12 weeks of their lives,” she added.
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