America’s disgrace: The dark truth about surrogacy in the U.S. | Frankly Ep10

Surrogacy in the U.S. has become a billion-dollar business, but at what cost? What began with a 1993 California court decision now fuels an international trade that erases motherhood, commodifies children, and exports babies to the highest bidder, often without basic protections or background checks. Critics call it legalized human trafficking. While the Vatican, UN, and EU move to ban the practice, America leads the way in normalizing it. Behind the euphemisms of “gestational carriers” lies a system that fractures families, exploits women, and sells life as a product. The true antidote, according to Catholic social teaching, is a return to the […]