Steps for Life, a pro-life platform in Mexico, has called for legislation against surrogate motherhood, which it describes as “rent-a-womb,” and any other form of exploitation of women’s fertility.
As part of its campaign, the platform is painting outdoor murals across Mexico with messages such as “Women are not for rent much less are their children for sale.”
The platform stated that the aim of the murals is to “make visible this grave practice that is spreading in Mexico.” The murals have been painted in several states, including Coahuila, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, and Mexico City.
The director of Steps for Life, Pilar Rebollo, has charged that surrogate motherhood “or any form of exploitation of female fertility violates women more than what has been done for centuries.”
According to research by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the industry generated profits of $6 billion worldwide in 2018. By 2025, the figure could rise to $27.5 billion.
Steps for Life fights for better conditions for pregnant women and their children so that the dignity of each person is respected from conception to natural death.
Rebollo condemns the commercialization of a woman’s body and fertility, stating that “for a woman in need, her body and her fertility is being commercialized.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral.”
Pope Francis also warned against “rent-a-womb,” stating that “the dignity of men and women is also threatened by the inhuman and increasingly widespread practice of ‘rent-a-womb’ in which women, almost always poor, are exploited and children are treated as merchandise.”
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