{"id":261603,"date":"2022-01-26T06:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261603"},"modified":"2022-01-25T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:06:13","slug":"priyanka-chopra-nick-jonas-feminist-surrogacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/priyanka-chopra-nick-jonas-feminist-surrogacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra surrogacy draws ire of activist: ‘Surrogacy is possible because there are poor women’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, celebrity couple Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra made a surprise announcement: thanks to surrogacy, they had become parents. While the news was met largely with positive reactions from other celebrities, one feminist activist in India is less enthused.<\/p>\n

Taslima Nasreen, an author and physician originally from Bangladesh and an outspoken feminist and humanist activist, wasted no time condemning surrogacy in a series of tweets<\/a>.\u00a0“How do those mothers feel when they get their readymade babies through surrogacy? Do they have the same feelings for the babies like the mothers who give birth to the babies?” she began, and then moved on<\/a> to discuss the exploitative nature of surrogacy.<\/p>\n

“Surrogacy is possible because there are poor women,” she added. “Rich people always want the existence of poverty in the society for their own interests. If you badly need to raise a child, adopt a homeless one.” She then said<\/a>, “I won’t accept surrogacy until rich women become surrogate mom [sic].”<\/p>\n

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Surrogacy is possible because there are poor women. Rich people always want the existence of poverty in the society for their own interests. If you badly need to raise a child, adopt a homeless one. Children must inherit your traits—it is just a selfish narcissistic ego.<\/p>\n

— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) January 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n