Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Recently, singer Megan Trainor posted a picture of herself in a hospital bed,

teary-eyed, holding a newborn for skin-to-skin contact.

The woman who carried and birthed a child, however, was nowhere in sight.

Trainer and her husband used a surrogate.

Now, of course, as images go these days, that one is preferable to the one of men pretending to be postpartum,

having just bought a child via the surrogacy market.

But that shows just how disordered our society has become about marriage, sex, and babies.

Many people, including many Christians, consider surrogacy a harmless and helpful technological

advancement. After all, people want babies and more babies are good, the thinking goes.

All the while, a blind eye is turned to the severe moral problems inherent to the mechanics of surrogacy,

including the commodification of children and the desecration of the maternal bond.

Not to mention, the system is so under-regulated, pedophiles and child abusers have been able to

acquire victims. Thankfully, more are learning the truth about this practice and this industry,

as Katie Faust, of them before us, put it in

response to trainers' photo, quote, thousands are finally speaking up against surrogacy. The tide is turning.

We're grateful your baby is here, alive, and loved, but we won't pretend the method was harmless.

No child should be created through a system that turns women into means and babies into products,

end quote. While that system is enabled and protected by the 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court

decision, severing marriage and law from the intrinsically biological realities of male and female,

also served to sever the connection between children and those whose union creates them.

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