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« In an international context, some of Waters’ views are perfectly normal. Almost every wealthy country besides the US bans elective sex selection. Every other wealthy country bans commercial surrogacy, which the UN called a form of violence against women and “the sale of children.” »

I absolutely disagree with her view on gender roles, but from a non American perspective, the real craziness is the eugenics and the commodification of children and women’s bodies

It's a very good article overall but even if he was "hot" it's a weird thing to mention that doesn't seem to relate to anything else. It is a pretty large distraction.

Right, I would've liked an explanation of that in his words. Presumably he subscribes to the "will to power" stuff and not the "god is dead" stuff. Which is a pretty heavy combination...

Stories like this really make it clear how Democrats as a party, often out of fear of appearing puritanical or performative, cowed into those fears by the right, abdicate their moral positions. Dems should be leading the charge on good faith regulation here rather than leaving it to the nutjobs.

Not many people outside of DC have heard of Waters. Yet Waters is a factory for policy papers and op-eds extolling the harms of unregulated reproductive technology, probing the moral issues that liberals don’t want to touch with a 10-foot turkey baster.

wired.comShe’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have KidsNo IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.

As a kind of backroom wheeler-dealer and political strategist, she is the mastermind behind Florida’s recent ban on international surrogacy, the Texas GOP’s souring on IVF, and the squashing of Trump’s “fertilization president” initiatives.

wired.comShe’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have KidsNo IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.

This couple can only be described as "the sort of people you're bound to see every single time you set foot in a Casey's convenience store."