The recent appointment of Olivia Maurel, a self-declared feminist and atheist born of surrogacy, as spokeswoman for the Casablanca Declaration for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy, has come to highlight a new phenomenon in the West.
Indeed, while her decision to join a group whose initiators are for the most part committed Christians may have come as a surprise to most observers, it is nevertheless not unrelated to the split observed in progressive circles over the last decade, as issues such as gender theory, surrogate motherhood, pornography and prostitution have blurred the usual ideological dividing lines.
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