Maybe we shouldn’t commodify everything

Published March 31, 2022 10:50pm ET



When you contract for a delivery of goods in the marketplace, and the goods you get are not what you contracted for, it is perfectly reasonable and even expected that you might go to court. That is, after all, how a free market works.

But what if, instead of contracting for goods, you contracted for a new human life? And what if not only did you contract for a healthy new human life, but you also demanded that this new miracle was female? What happens if you are delivered a happy, healthy boy instead? Should courts be enforcing contracts over the miracle of procreation?

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