JoJo Siwa’s plan to welcomethree children via three differentsurrogatewomen sparkedoutrageand heated debate onsurrogacyethics. The21-year-old artistappeared in a new YouTube series forCosmopolitanentitled “If It Were Me” on Monday (July 15), candidly answering hypothetical situations.
HighlightsJoJo Siwa’s plan to have three children via three surrogates sparked outrage and debate on surrogacy ethics.In a new YouTube series, JoJo shared her plan to fertilize three eggs and use three surrogates.Critics described JoJo’s surrogacy plans as ‘extremely irresponsible’ and highlighted the ethical concerns surrounding surrogacy.
TheDance Momsalumninstantly replied: “I would break up with her. Divorce.
“And that is something that I talk about very early on with partners.”
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JoJo Siwa’s plan to welcome three children via three different surrogate women sparked outrage
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She continued: “I’m like, ‘Just so you know, there are three children. Their names are Freddie, Eddie, and Teddie.’
“I will have as many more as you want, however many more, but F.E.T. is coming, and they will be here in three years, whether you like it or not.
“Those are my nuggets, and no one comes before my nuggets.”
JoJo went on to confess that as a person identifying asgay, she had to plan her pregnancy “much differently than a straight person.”
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Lesbian couples have several options for having children, including donor insemination, where sperm from a known or anonymous donor is used to fertilize one partner’s egg.
In November,Norwegian TikTokers Julie and Camilla Lorentzen welcomed their first childvia this method.
People in same-gender relationships orqueer familiescan also welcome a child via reciprocal IVF, where one partner provides the eggs and the other carries the pregnancy.
A person seeking to become aparentmay also adopt a child or choose co-parenting arrangements with male friends or couples.
The 21-year-old artist appeared in a new YouTube series forCosmopolitanentitled “If It Were Me” on Monday (July 15)
Nevertheless, JoJo openly spoke about her plans to pay for surrogates, saying: “I actually want to take three eggs, fertilize three eggs, and have three surrogates, so, technically, they’ll all be the same batch, but they would all be born separately.”
She further explained: “I’m going to have my surrogates, my babies, then maybe the little birthdays will land on different days, and they can be like triplets, but like not.”
A person wrote: “Okay now I get why people are againstsurrogacy.”
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Someone else penned: “Surrogacy already has a high chance of multiples, so having three surrogates is extremely irresponsible.
“Not to mention, she’s still perfectly capable of being pregnant with her own kids via IVF.
“I hope she’s joking because she doesn’t sound very informed.”
An observer defended: “She’s so funny and it goes right over [yall’s] heads.”
JoJo’s surrogacy plans drew heated debate on surrogacy ethics
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JoJo’s controversial pregnancy confessions were shared via the popular X page (formerly known as Twitter)Pop Baseon Saturday (July 20), igniting additional divided reactions.
“When you accumulate so much wealth from selling sippy cups with your face on [them] that you purchase three women’s bodies as vessels for your progeny because pain and discomfort [are] for the poors,” an X user noted.
“But it’s actually [a] marketplace for designer babies that caters to the rich and entitled.”
A commenter added: “Rich people renting working-class women’s wombs to make kids that they will pay working-class women to raise should be banned.”
“I lowkey feel bad for her.”
Rebel Wilson drew similar criticism back in November 2022 when shewelcomed her daughter, Royce Lillian, via surrogacywith her fiancé, Ramona Agruma.
JoJo explained that as a person identifying as gay, she had to plan her pregnancy “much differently than a straight person”
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“Stop acting like this is a normal thing.”
A surrogate, sometimes also called a gestational carrier, is a person who conceives, carries, and gives birth to a child for another person or couple (intended parent/s),Better Health Channelexplains.
The surrogate agrees to give the child to that person or couple after the birth. Moreover, surrogacy arrangements are medically, emotionally, financially, and legally complex.
In theUK, the surrogate will automatically be the child’s legal parent at birth. If the surrogate is married or in a civil partnership, their spouse or civil partner will be the child’s second parent at birth unless they did not give their permission.
InAustralia, all jurisdictions allow altruistic surrogacy — the surrogate does not receive monetary compensation — with commercial surrogacy being a criminal offense.
While surrogacy is a popular method of conceiving biological children, many oppose it for various reasons.
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For instance, back in April,the Pope said that surrogacy violated both the dignity of the surrogate mother and the child.
She continued: “The assumption is of course that the birth mother is completely detached from what is growing in her womb because she knows she’s going to have to give it away afterwards.”
As the legal framework for surrogacy varies depending on the country, flexible laws in certain nations have reportedly led to the exploitation of impoverished women, among other ethical concerns.
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