Washington Just Legalized Human Trafficking, Babies Can Now Be Bought and Sold Commercially
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.
By Matt Agorist
�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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