She lashed the Singer for naming a man as a mother in their sons birth certificates. She said the move was an example of how the concept of motherhood has 'been deconstructed".
'Sir Elton John and his "wife" David Furnish have entered on the birth certificate of their two sons that David Furnish is the mother. I'm sorry. That will give you an idea of how the concept of motherhood has emptied out. It's gone. It's been deconstructed.'
The author of the best-selling book The Female Eunuch in 1970, went on to criticize the process of IVF, by which the couples' children were born.
'We now have a "genetic" mother, who supplies eggs. It depends entirely on where she is if she is going to be allowed to know what happens to the eggs. And women tend to care.
'An egg is not a sperm, we do not produce 400 million of them in one go. One miserable little egg pops every month.
'Then they give you follicle stimulating hormones and you have seventeen or something [eggs] and they give you cut price IVF and distribute the rest of your eggs where they see fit.
'In some places you are allowed to know what happens to them, in other places you are not. What you get is a reduced bill for IVF because a child is being born by the people involved using your eggs.
'I'm sorry. Did we talk about this? Did we sit down and talk about what eggs mean to women?'
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