Why is it that the average pregnant woman does not get paid, but surrogate mothers do?
If it's because surrogate mothers are not choosing to be pregnant for themselves, why doesn't the religious right argue that women who get pregnant by rape, who they think still should carry the baby to term, should be paid for it?

Hmmmm... Does that argument also apply to abortion in general?? Does the conservative argument for abortion, combined with our views about surrogates being reimbursed for their work, mean that the state should offer to pay mothers considering an abortion to carry their baby to term?

Why shouldn't women be paid to be pregnant? Commodify women's wombs and the problem of unequal pay might be solved? If a person can sell their arms, legs and brains to a factory for 8 hours a day, why can't they sell their wombs?


Later edit: The more I think about this, the odder it seems. Men sell their strongest assests all the time and have been used for these assets throughout recorded history. Why have women not sold their strongest assets?? Or to put it another way, why have societies not allowed women to sell their most important commodities? The selling of their sexual power has been outlawed in many (if not most) societies and I have never heard of a single society in which women sell their reproductive capacity unless we consider marriage a form of economic exchange in which a women sells both her sexual power and reproductive capacity to a man.
Is this fact solely a result of the overwhelming power of patriarachy in recorded history?

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