This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles

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One that you might like is Full Seregacy Now, Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis.

The surrogacy industry is worth over $1 billion a year and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions while many gestate babies for no pay at all.

Should it be illegal to pay someone to just date a baby for you?

Full surrogacy now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate.

Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to

continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radically transform

it. S surrogates should be put front and center, and their rights toward the babies they

gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that Seregates are more than mere vessels.

In doing so, we break down our assumptions that children

necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share. This might sound like a

radical proposal, but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing

taking collective responsibility for children rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with,

would radically transform notions of kinship.

Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy helps us see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child.

Full surrogacy now, feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

British politics are tremendously exciting, maddeningly boring and deeply worrying.

Exciting in that the Labor Party is now under Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing leadership

and has a plausible and radical plan to transform the United Kingdom so that it is run by and works for

the many and not the few. Boring because the country has been dominated by an interminable Brexit debate, the most

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