he controversy surrounding German politician Jens Spahn has been framed as a story about political hypocrisy. A senior Christian Democrat, whose party has long opposed surrogacy, has become a father through a surrogate in the United States. Critics have accused him of saying one thing while doing another.
Perhaps. But the real question is not whether one politician has been inconsistent. It is what the episode reveals about the direction of Western civilisation.
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