COMMENTARY: The inhumanity of surrogacy

Kathryn Jean Lopez Andrews McMeel Syndication July 16, 2026 - 9:00 pm A same-sex couple in Canada is currently suing the surrogate who made their son possible. The woman refused an abortion when a cleft lip was discovered on the unborn child she was carrying. Things do get complicated when we men and women get into the business of playing God. It doesn’t have to be something as intimate and yet bound by legal contracts as surrogacy. We do it all the time in life. But should we be doing surrogacy in the first place? What about the surrogate? And what about the little person who has no voice in matters of his life and death? According to media reports, everything went south for the Canadian couple and the surrogate after the abortion refusal. “More conflict arose,” according to the National