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Guardianship, not paternalism: A different way to think about surrogacy and the state
Before the NSW Legislative Council even asked its first question, we made a deliberate choice: to shift the entire frame of the hearing. In this short episode, Emma and Megan discuss the opening statement we delivered to the inquiry, and the political philosophy driving it.
They explore what it means to say that parliamentarians hold power but not rights against the citizens they represent; why guardianship and paternalism are fundamentally different ideas, and why that distinction matters enormously in the surrogacy debate; and how accepting the framing of 'fertility support' stewardship…
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