As we all know, one of the concepts most affected by the current relativistic, social, moral, and spiritual crisis is the natural family, which consists of complements of dependency, cooperation, assistance, and mutual interaction through motherhood and fatherhood.

What can be understood as an essential part of Christian anthropology is seriously endangered, insofar as the complex and heterogeneous patterns of human action and spontaneous order are directed, in one way or another, by the drives of the Evil One.

Much can be said about this, of course, without any doubt. However, we are going to focus on a more specific problem (we are not going to avoid the fact that it cooperates with other phenomena, so to speak): maternal surrogacy.

We Have Misunderstood the Dimension Of Maternity

In the apostolic letter Mulleris Dignitatem (1988), Saint John Paul II addressed the issue of female dignity and vocation in light of the Marian Year. There we may find an enlightening note about maternity:

All “generating” among creatures finds its primary model in that generating which in God is completely divine, that is, spiritual. All “generating” in the created world is to be likened to this absolute and uncreated model. Thus every element of human generation which is proper to man, and every element which is proper to woman, namely human “fatherhood” and “motherhood”, bears within itself a likeness to, or analogy with the divine “generating” and with that “fatherhood” which in God is “totally different”, that is, completely spiritual and divine in essence; whereas in the human order, generation is proper to the “unity of the two”: both are “parents”, the man and the woman alike.

There are some people who regardless a good faith and intention may consider that surrogacy is a scientific and technological development that allow women to have children despite some natural problems (it may be understood that this is just about creating new lives).

There are alternatives with more ethical legitimacy such as the so-called Napro technology. But the point is that surrogacy erodes the essence and constitution of maternity, apart from materializing the baby in such a way that life is the least important thing.

Social Engineering to Subvert Natural and Social Systems

According to the Polish Ordo Iuris Institute, which has launched an international campaign against this horrifying and horrendous practice (more information can be found and signed here), in 2020, an economic volume of $4billion was generated.

It is not a negligible amount (in fact, there are territories in which the legalization of it is debated). But the fact that surrogacy makes money should not be a compelling reason to take advantage of the Pisuerga riverbed to attack what is still part of the natural order: the free market.

I consider it unnecessary to cite too many economic theories, however valid, meritorious, and plausible they may be. Perhaps with mere practical clarifications and common sense it can be enough to help avoid this misunderstanding that only satisfies the cravings and bad instincts of the Devil.

To begin with, the market is a natural mechanism, fully compatible with the principle of subsidiarity (something about which assertions are made in the Social Doctrine of the Church), which allows society to satisfy its needs and preferences, in a totally meritocratic way, understanding that the value of things is subjective.

Food, clothing, medical supplies, home comforts, books of different kinds, communication tools, vehicles, computer equipment, non-tangible services, etc. There is much that one can wish for out of necessity or for healthy enjoyment with loved ones, friends, and others.

Obviously, those who provide the services will be rewarded through exchange compensation (for example, payment with monetary units) while, whoever wishes, may consider that nothing prevents them from contributing to society by contributing something of presumed value, without the restrictions of Pharisees.

Another thing is that we have been fooled to believe that statism supposes, progressively problematic. But it is that the surrogate bellies are not a mere consequence of that spontaneous factual attribute that Ludwig von Mises considered as “economic democracy”.

I say this because what underlies surrogacy is, on the one hand, the culture of death and the various purposes of destruction of the family while, on the other, relativism and hedonism.

And no, none of that is part of the well understood spontaneous order, in that compatible Austrian-Thomist conception. Rather, it has to do with the development of the current revolutionary phases, very much guided by Gramscian theories, to achieve that goal of subversion of the divine natural order, with the State as a substitute.

Without the State, the social engineering required to adulterate reality could not be carried out based on theoretical fallacies such as gender ideology, which in the end is no less disgusting than communism and Nazism. They also do much to reduce the individual to a mere submissive digit, which further denies human dignity.

The culture of death is endorsed by those who, in charge of political sovereignty, are corrupted by disinterest in the Good and Truth (many times, this extends to democracy, which tends to relativize everything, while, for on the other hand, here’s a way up for totalitarianism).

With the collaboration of the executing arms represented by pressure groups and certain corporations that obey more to the political perk than to the social interest of spontaneous resolution through the market, statism serves as subversive brainwashing, which, obviously, threatens motherhood and human dignity.

Much emphasis is placed on “the freedom to form families” and on the “liberation of women.” But it is that freedom is not to devise family models that medicine indicates as unviable as well as to exploit a woman and turn a fetus into a mere material and inert object that is completely disposable.

Thus, for example, wanting to book a hotel to spend a five-day vacation on the beach with the family or buy some running sports shoes is not the same as being damaged by a coercive and totalitarian brainwashing, which is not intended to liberate but destroy. In fact, some of these surrogates are forced to abort in the process.

Market freedom does not require the objectification of the individual. It can perfectly resist through charitable institutions that protect abandoned children and look for a new family that, whether or not it has problems with natural reproduction, is willing to comply here with the maxim of giving to others.

With which, having said this, it should still be borne in mind that, rather, surrogate bellies are a fruit of the alleged and directed moral and spiritual corruption of the Revolution, which does not pretend that we are freer (not even in economy), but rather that we are individuals without dignity, atomized and subjected to the modern demonic artifice.

Translated from Spanish and published at Religión en Libertad