Ever since people have figured out how to control birth, the debate around the rights and wrongs have raged. Is abortion equal to murder? Shouldn’t a woman be the one to decide what happens in and to her body? And now, for reasons that don’t need elaboration, the fairness and unfairness of surrogacy get added to that debate.

A Mr Khan, reportedly the latest on the surrogacy train, quite rightly says he doesn’t want to talk about it as it’s personal. Truly, how can anyone tell anyone that they should not want to see the curve of their own cheek, their habitual physical mannerism, the shape of their smile magically reproduced in another being. Or as a newspaper article recently put it “People go in for surrogacy when they want to have their genes in a child.”