Conservative policy groups and feminist advocates rarely agree on what women should be allowed to do with their bodies. One side tends to defend traditional roles; the other insists on self-determination and autonomy. But on the thorny question of surrogacy, they’ve come to the same conclusion: it should end.

This unlikely alignment sharpened into public view in April, when Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, delivered a stark proposal to the UN General Assembly: that all forms of surrogacy—paid or unpaid, domestic or international—should be abolished outright.

She argued that the practice inflicted “multiple forms of violence” on women, reducing pregnancy to contract labor and their bodies to delivery systems for those with greater we

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