BreakPoint This Week: The State of the Union and Ukraine's Commercial Surrogacy Fallout
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What exactly did President Joe Biden say at the State of the Union? John and Maria identify the worldview foundation that President Biden spoke from and how the topics in his speech, ranging from Ukraine to education, reveal important realities about his worldview.
To close the show, Maria shares a haunting reality in the Ukraine conflict: Surrogate children conceived for commercial purposes are stuck in a Ukrainian bomb shelter because their paying parents aren't able to reach them. John explains the challenge of commercial surrogacy and how it differs from adoption and other forms of surrogacy.
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Ukraine's Surrogacy Industry Has Put Women in Impossible Positions
Ukraine is an international surrogacy hub, one of only a handful of countries in the world that allows foreigners to enter into surrogacy arrangements. That means people from the United States or China or Germany or Australia can go there and hire a local woman to gestate their child. There are conditions—the parents have to be straight and married and have a medical reason for needing a surrogate—but surrogates are plentiful, paying them is legal, and establishing legal parenthood for the intended parents is uncomplicated.
Protecting the Victims of Bad Ideas
Standing for the inherent dignity and rights of children against the innovations of our age is our version of "running into the plague and caring for victims" while everyone else is running away.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.1 | Today we're going to talk about the state of the union addressed this week and what President Biden's speech reveals about the role of government and what we expect from our leaders. |
| 0:15.3 | We're also going to talk about an increasing emergency in Ukraine with the war and with the surrogacy industry there and how we |
| 0:23.4 | can think about that from a Christian worldview. So we have a lot of heavy topics to get to |
| 0:27.4 | today. But we're so glad you're with us. Stick around. Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week |
| 0:33.5 | from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, |
| 0:37.9 | president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint. John, Wayne and I, before we started |
| 0:43.4 | recording this, we're just talking about baseball because we're super excited about the Wilberforce |
| 0:48.3 | weekend coming up in a couple months in Orlando. And I think so my husband is one of his goals in life is to get to every single |
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| 1:44.7 | We did announce speakers for World Force Weekend. |
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