Imagine you’re in a vessel heading towards an unknown destination.
Without your consent, you have been sold to a couple who can legally force your mother to terminate your life at any point before you exit the vessel.
This dystopian scenario may sound like the long-extinct transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately, it’s a depiction of modern American surrogacy, in which a couple may legally contract a woman to carry their baby to term. This grants them the right to the contents of her womb: a human child.
