This January sales time it appears you can get yourself a half-price baby. Or at least one at a reduced price, excluding delivery charge.
This isn't as flippant as it might sound. The reality we now inhabit is one in which the buying and selling of children increasingly exists in the form of surrogacy. This commodification of women and children, turning them into consumer goods, has rightly been called out by Pope Francis.
In a 8 January speech at the Vatican to the world’s representatives to the Holy See, Pope Francis declared: “The path to peace calls for respect for life, for every human life, starting with the life of the unborn child in the mother’s womb, which cannot be suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking."
