Kardashian shows the shadows behind the glittering surrogacy industry

A female worker, a woman with expenses reimbursed and who for money will take hormones and become pregnant, will give birth in pain like all the others, before handing over the newborn to the “clients” who will pay the bill and take it away, because it’s their “stuff”. A business like any other, by now, so much so that the jurist Olivia Sarton wrote in 2021 that “today it is less risky to violate the law by selling surrogacy than for a bistro to serve coffee without checking the green pass”. But also a new way of thinking, a “modern lifestyle”. It is an increasingly less shocking business in the West which conceals and where even slavery becomes a right.

Now Khloé Kardashian, Kim’s sister, shows all the shadows that hide behind this golden business of hearts and rights. Kardashian just confessed to feeling “guilty” about using a surrogate mother. The Good American founder called it a “settlement” during the third season of “The Kardashians” and says she fell into a “state of shock from the whole experience.” “I buried my head in the sand during that pregnancy,” she said. “When I went to the hospital I felt really guilty that this woman had just had my baby and then took him with me leaving mother and baby separated. I wish there was some honesty about surrogacy.” Kardashian said her first child was different. “I think there is a difference when your baby is in your tummy, when the baby hears your heart beating. There is no one else on this planet who will feel you from the inside like this, that he will feel your heart ”. And he beats much louder than the little heart emojis.

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• Giulio Meotti

• Giulio Meotti has been a journalist for «Il Foglio» since 2003. He is the author of numerous books, including We will not stop dancing. The untold stories of the martyrs of Israel (Capalbio Prize); They killed Charlie Hebdo; The end of Europe (Capri Prize); Israel. The last European state; The suicide of Western culture; God’s Tomb; Notre Dame burns; The Last Pope of the West? and Europe without Jews.