The 2018 Washington State Uniform Parentage Act passed the state legislature completely on party lines, and was signed by the governor into law on March 6, 2018, rescinding a long-standing state statute prohibiting this practice. This law was probably marketed to many of the liberal Democrat majority legislators/state executive branch officials as benignly as enhancing opportunities for many legally married gay couples/infertile heterosexual couples to have families, without sharing with these lawmakers that this practice had been banned in other US states/many foreign countries, and why. These liberal legislators apparently did not do their due diligence, and therefore did not discern that voluntary/altruistic parental surrogacy is one thing — but, when commercialized, can become something else altogether — and not something any good at all.
