Men are human, women are surrogates
Grown-up news outlets shouldn’t be talking about manufactured babies this way:
This Is Going to Hurt author and ex-doctor Adam Kay is shattered, which is hardly surprising – he’s just been mopping up baby vomit and is clearly sleep-deprived.
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Kay and his husband, Games of Thrones producer James Farrell, share Ruby, aged 10 months, and Ziggy, six months, whom they had via surrogates.
They didn’t “have” anything. Two nameless women who obviously don’t matter did the having. Kay and his husband paid two women to carry and gestate and push out babies for them. It’s revolting to see an adult institution like the BBC prattle about babies that two men “had via surrogates.”
Kay and his husband, Games of Thrones producer James Farrell, share Ruby, aged 10 months, and Ziggy, six months,
whom they had via surrogates.whom they purchased from impoverished women.I am confused what they mean by “share”. Custody? Care? Who talks about “sharing” kids? Why not “have two children, Ruby and Ziggy”?
And “whom they had via surrogates”? Some of these arrangements involve the men supplying semen for artificial insemination, is that what is meant here? Is the implication that Kay is the father of one child and Farrell the father of the other? Or did they just buy two babies?
Yes it’s not clear, but all the possible meanings are vile.
Ah, yes. Adam Kay, who was so traumatised by the horrors of what he saw when he worked in obstetrics and gynaecology that he had to quit being a doctor. And then went on to pay not just one, but two women to take on the dangers of pregnancy on his and his husband’s behalf.