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ON NOVEMBER 13 I travelled to The Hague to join fellow feminist activists who, called by the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, wanted to oppose the new approach from The Hague conference on private international law.
This conference is working on creating a kind of skeleton for a future international surrogacy law to make cross-border surrogacy agreements effective — but the team in charge of updating these laws seems to be keen to regulate instead of abolish and distinguishes between “surrogacy” and “trafficking surrogacy with the purpose of reproductive exploitation,” which is absurd — all surrogacy is exploitative.
I’m glad I went. I was representing FiLiA, the charity where I’m the lead for reproductive and sexual rights of women. I feel very passionate about the urgent need to abolish surrogacy everywhere.
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