"To Buy a Baby, You Must First Rent a Woman" with MaryLou Singleton: Surrogacy Series Part 1 of 3

Free Birth Society

Emilee Saldaya

Self-improvement, Education

3.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Alright my friends, the time has come for our Three Part Surrogacy Series. I have been wanting to unpack surrogacy on this show for a while now and offer my listeners a walk through as to why it is inherently anti-feminist and anti-motherbaby. So for the next three weeks we will be doing a deep dive looking at it from every angle, with experts on commercial surrogacy in Part 1 and 3 of this series.

We will also have a personal story with our guest next week, Briana, who will be sharing her story of deep pain and regret having signed up to be a surrogate mother.

I’m offering this to all of you because until it was spelled out to me, I had never given it much thought and didn’t know enough about it to be critical of it and vocal about the objective dangers.

So with that, I hope you will join me today with my guest and personal hero, Marylou Singleton, as we walk through the ABC’s of surrogacy and why it is an industry we are staunchly against - as you cannot be both *for* motherbaby, and for the commodification of women and children.

A must read article: https://marylousingleton.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/amicus-brief-to-scotus-opposing-the-exploitation-of-women-by-the-commercial-surrogacy-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0aJ7aC03tmeEF62t6laX3S2vQ0YWYFRtrm8xJrXHTR2gLWp1qmWVfYHXw

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring, and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.
0:14.5	Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories, and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively.
0:24.1	Here's your host, Emily Saldane.
0:35.6	There are many ways to interact with Free Birth Society.
0:41.2	These include our incredible offering the Complete Guide to Free Birth, which is the most comprehensive
0:47.1	online course available on how to give birth in your power.
0:51.5	We also have a beautiful freebirth meditation program called the Sovereign
0:55.8	Birth Meditation Series, designed to help you release your fears and actualize your dream
1:01.6	birth. Our latest course is called Through the Veil, a profoundly personal, radical pregnancy
1:09.1	companion program by Yolanda Norris Clark that offers the opportunity
1:13.6	to travel with Yolanda as she moves through the last trimester of her most recent pregnancy
1:19.6	and invites you in to her birth room to witness the birth of her eighth child.
1:26.2	And if you're looking for a deeper connection and the opportunity for sisterhood in community
1:31.1	with radical, like-minded women, the Free Birth Society private membership is for you,
1:37.0	and you can apply on our website to become a member.
1:40.2	We also offer personalized one-on-one transformational coaching with a focus on learning the tools to move out of victim consciousness and towards self-responsibility, skills that translate to freedom not only in the context of birth and mothering, but in every area of life.
1:57.4	And finally, we are offering all of you, our amazing listeners, the free gift of Yolanda's 20-minute
2:04.1	birth affirmations audio recording, a gorgeous soothing meditation that every pregnant mother
2:10.5	should have. So just head on over to our website at freebirthsociety.com, sign up, and Yolanda's
2:17.2	affirmations will be sent directly to your inbox.
2:40.6	All right, my friends, the time has come for our three-part surrogacy series.
2:51.8	I have been wanting to unpack surrogacy on this show for a while now and offer my listeners a walk-through as to why it is inherently anti-feminist and anti-mother baby.
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