Ah, that's exciting. Are you ready to meet your parents? Are you?

Let's ruffle some feathers here and talk about surrogacy and adoption. So the other day,

CBS News, I think, trying to post what they thought counted as a heartwarming puff piece type of

story included a video on their timeline of this gay couple meeting their daughter for the first

time. This video was captioned. This is the moment Ben and his husband Aaron met their daughter

Charlotte for the first time.

Now that video posted to CBS's timeline didn't come with an article explaining the situation

that video was just kind of all that we got. And many people, myself included, instead of finding

that video uplifting or sweet or heartwarming, actually found it kind of sad, kind of disturbing

and dare I say, yeah, potentially just straight up dystopian because you see the issue of surrogacy

is one that's coming up more and more often, not that long ago. On this show, we actually talked

about a California bill or an amendment to a bill that would actually give gay couples IVF guaranteed

as part of their health insurance, basically saying that gay men are entitled to a woman's

womb and a woman's genetic material in order to have offspring, which of course is not a right

that exists for anybody. Now I'm someone who is a mother and perhaps luckily I will say before

recently, I had never given surrogacy just as an issue much thought it's just never really come

up in my life. After looking into and considering the matter further, I would now like to take the

opportunity to come out very strongly again surrogacy as an entire industry, but also just as a concept.

And now I know that there are examples of surrogacy where if you've seen friends, you'll know that

sometimes an egg, a fertilized egg could belong to a couple and they essentially just pay a woman

to gestate the baby. I'm not sure how I feel about scenarios like that, but I think they are the

very least more palatable, less dystopian than examples where a man or a woman will pay someone to

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