(Matt Agorist) Washington legislators have passed what many are referring to as the most disturbing bill in history that legalizes the commercial sale of human babies to anyone with enough money to buy one.
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Source – The Free Thought Project
by Matt Agorist, March 9th, 2018
“House Democrats voted to legalize the purchase and sale of human babies.” – 42nd District Rep. Luanne Van Werven, R-Lynden.
Washington — When most people think about surrogacy, they imagine a loving infertile or same-sex couple, unable to have children, who need a surrogate mother to give them a baby. Surrogacy has long been an amazing gift for those unable to have babies. However, when laws are passed that commercialize the separation of babies from their birth mother, very real risks to children arise.
When it comes to surrogacy laws in the United States, Washington is proving to be a third world country. Over the years, as countries have legalized “commercial surrogacy,” once they realize the horrors that it creates, they proceed to ban it as it creates a market for children to be bought and sold like commodities with no oversight as to where the babies end up.
After watching children being openly sold to human traffickers, in 2015, both Thailand and Nepal banned the act. In 2016, Mexico also banned commercial surrogacy, followed by India last year, and Cambodia this week.
The bans are a result of watching what happens when such laws are in place as it quite literally legalizes the buying and selling of children and creates a market for human trafficking. In spite of these bans, however, the “baby buyers” don’t go away, they just move their lobbying to other markets—and their sights have been set on Washington state.
As the Lynden-Tribune reports, last week, the Washington State House of Representatives approved legislation modifying the procedures for determining certain aspects of the legal parent-child relationship, known as the Washington Uniform Parentage Act. The bill makes changes to surrogacy agreements, allowing for “commercial surrogacy,” say 10 House Republican women including 42nd District Rep. Luanne Van Werven, R-Lynden.
Many legislators called the bill the most disturbing policy they have ever considered in their careers.
In a press release this week, lawmakers voiced their dissent, noting:
“The exchange of funds for carrying and giving birth to a child undermines the human dignity and rights of the mother and child. This type of business transaction is very different from altruistic surrogacy, which is a compassionate act of generosity and sacrifice that does not involve for-profit payment.
“In an effort to protect women and their children, Republicans offered 14 amendments that would have shielded women from this type of exploitation and prohibited the sale and purchase of children in our state. Sadly, they were all rejected on party-line votes.”
In spite of the disturbing nature of the bill, it passed the house by a vote of 50-47 and is now on the governor’s desk.
After the bill’s passage, house member Van Werven did not mince words when she noted that the bill quite literally legalizes the sale of babies.
“I would say that ‘human decency’ died in the dark this morning around 1 a.m. at your WA State Capitol. House Democrats voted to legalize the purchase and sale of human babies. In the six years I’ve served in the WA State House of Representatives, I have never been more disgusted by such a sinister piece of legislation,” Van Werven wrote.
“Currently in WA, any woman can offer to be a surrogate mother for couples who want a baby. Today, it is done out of altruistic giving, love, compassion and caring on the part of the surrogate mother. … For House Republicans, this bill was a matter of conscience. We all voted ‘no’ to protect the womb from being monetized and commercialized. This bill sets virtually no limits on the amount people will be able to sell or purchase a human baby for.”
“What have we become as a state, selling human babies to the highest bidder? Is this who we are? I asked these questions on the House floor during the final debate. In its current form as it passed out of the House, the bill even permits convicted felons to purchase human babies.”
While it is certainly any mother’s right to give her child up for adoption, or to have a surrogate child for an infertile couple, removing the commercial incentive serves as a barrier to breeding babies for the sole purpose of trafficking.
Because of the loopholes in commercial surrogacy laws, the “parents” who purchase the babies do not undergo the same screenings as parents who are trying to adopt. Instead, they simply create a contract, pay money, and purchase a baby. Anyone with enough money—including human traffickers—will be able to go to Washington state, starting on Jan. 1, 2019, and purchase a human baby, no questions asked.
As the website ThemBeforeUs points out, we will never be able to track who is buying these children and where they are being taken. We won’t know the outcome for a child/children purchased by a man, grown in the uterus of a woman desperately in need of money. We won’t know that he left with the child, or multiple children, with the sole intent to sell them for sex. We won’t know that he has turned to surrogacy instead of plucking children off the street at the Port Authority bus terminal in order to prostitute them. Conveniently for him, “intended parent” offers far fewer entanglements than does kidnapping runaways.
If you think this sounds alarmist, consider the fact that people have been caught using commercial surrogacy ‘‘for the sole purpose of exploitation.’’ A couple in Austraila was sentenced to 40 years in prison after they were found to have bought a baby through commercial surrogacy and then sold him for sex almost immediately after he was born. This little boy was born into a world of sexual abuse that went on for years all thanks to the commercialization of children.
Ironically enough, lawmakers across the United States and in Washington are pushing for stricter background checks when people purchase guns but as this law illustrates, if you want to buy a baby, no background check is needed. A crisis of consciousness indeed.
If you’d like to call Gov. Jay Inslee to urge him to veto SB 6037, the governor’s office phone number is 360-902-4111.
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I suggest that Washingtonians find out who it was of their House Representatives that voted for this Bill and then investigate them, as they are no doubt linked to Pedophilia in some way. They either are Pedophiles themselves or they know people who are or they are advocates of Child/Adult sex relationships.
The Democrats have been trying to normalize and push for legalized Pedophilia in the US for some time. If you don’t start challenging your lawmakers and legislators now, soon it will be too late.
I have already called the Governor’s phone number listed above. People need to start making a lot of noise about this now, so heavy-handed remedies won’t be necessary at a later time.
I believe you have hit the proverbial nail on the head with your comment. As I read this article, i was thinking the exact same thing. There is NO OTHER REASON WHATSOEVER than the one you stated for this to have passed. This bill was passed so that children could be bought, sold, and used for pedophilia trafficking or personal “use” and that is the ONLY reason. And those it voted for it are in on it because even though i have no doubt these state legislatures are full of idiots, no one can be stupid enough to think this is going to be beneficial in one single way for any of the horribly unfortunate children born into it, GOD help them please. This is just the beginning. How many state legislatures will follow suit? Normalization of sexualizing children has been an ongoing psy-op for decades and now we are seeing the push for normalization of adult/child sex relationships. Obviously, the legislators who voted for this bill are getting prepared for it. And the community are like crickets. Unfuckingbelievable.
this is already happening in every state only under the table, so it actually changes very little and allowing for the people involved to sign legal contracts will help curb scammers and make the income taxable