We should stop selling American babies.
Regardless of the flaws in the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on birthplace citizenship, it highlights that the surrogacy industry is selling American babies and shipping them overseas. Literally. Just last year, The Wall Street Journal published a story headlined “The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate.” The leading example was Xu Bo, a video game mogul whose “company said he has more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the U.S.” The vast majority of these are boys, whom he prefers.
