The surrogacy fad has several dark elements, chief among them being the treatment of babies as commodities instead of people. This leads to a contradiction in Democratic Party ideology, where “your body, my choice” becomes the standard for abortion.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in a surrogacy case involving an Alaska woman who traveled to Texas to seek treatment for her unborn child. The woman was contracted as a surrogate for a California couple, who wanted “their” baby aborted over the baby’s heart defect. The couple tried to get the woman to come to California to deliver the baby, where they would almost certainly deny the baby medical care upon his birth. Paxton intervened in a lawsuit to ensure that “baby Gabriel” received life-saving medical care upon his birth in Texas.