Surrogate motherhood, the complaint: “Solidarity does not exist, the use of the body is not a gift”

Giuliana Ruggeri, medical director at the Transplant Emergency Department, speaks: "No comparison with transplant, a child is not an organ"

ROME – “The so-called supportive surrogate motherhood already contains within itself the extremes of the elimination of the paradigm of the gift. According to many social and anthropological studies, the gift has own characteristics: giving, reciprocating and is linked to trust. In the use of one’s body, even in the form of solidarity, the gift is contradicted; subordination and then – (from the child’s point of view, ed.) – confusion of points of reference is created: he will not know who is the mother and who is the aunt of compensation“. It is with these words that, heard today in the Senate in the Justice Commission on bill 824 and related matters regarding the fight against surrogacy, Giuliana Ruggeri Medical director of the Emergency Department, Urgency and Transplants at the Company University hospitalist from Siena and member of the National Bioethics Committee, denounces what in her opinion is propaganda that hides the whole truth about surrogate motherhood.

Ruggeri, precisely in light of his experience, rejects any comparison between the surrogate and the transplant: meanwhile “it is a child, not an organ, and there is no selection in organs: no one can choose his donor< /strong>. There is a hidden commercialization and in the case of a confusion of constitutional relationships”, for example between mother and sister. “Surrogacy is marking a new anthropological model: a desire that becomes a right and self-determination as the sole criterion. It is the elimination of motherhood, the object-subject child and the commodification of the woman. It is the eclipse of motherhood”, she denounces.