You can try, but you can't erase moms.

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

In mid-September, an organization called Two Dads UK

held an exhibition called The Modern Family Show in London.

It was a trade show to sell fertility services

to LGBTQ people.

One vendor's floor-to-ceiling banner announced

the new face of surrogacy next to a photo of two men embracing with no woman.

This is an example of marketing being more about the audience than the product. The audience are

those who've intentionally chosen a sterile union but who now demand the product, which is a

child. Having a child requires a woman's womb, hired out as a means. Because no one wants to think

about that side of this industry, all we see is the happy audience, as if the woman's womb, hired out as a means. Because no one wants to think about that side of this

industry. All we see is the happy audience, as if the woman doesn't even exist. But she does.

Women aren't machines. Babies aren't products. No one's entitled to a child, especially at the expense

of a woman whose physical labor and emotional pain are completely left out of the glossy

photographs used for

the sales pitch.

I'm John Stone Street.