Archedelia

Archedelia

To Whom Do Children Belong?

Surrogacy completes the anthropology of liberal, industrial capitalism

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Matthew B. Crawford
Nov 04, 2024
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Babies delivered to surrogate mothers in Ukraine during the war, unable to be retrieved by those in the West who commissioned them. They are “abandoned inventory, and display models of the new archetype of humanity,” Jeff Shafer writes.

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