WHAT’S SAUCE FOR THE GANDER: “Germaine Greer has criticised gay parents Elton John and David Furnish for listing a man as the mother on the birth certificates of their two sons.”

‘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. . . .

‘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. . . .

‘The whole discourse has been distorted from the beginning by the fertility industry. I’ve been thinking about this lately, and I’ve got a suspicion, which I need to investigate properly, that we got legalised abortion precisely because the fertility industry needed it.

‘It wasn’t us. It certainly wasn’t us. We could have marched until our feet fell off and they wouldn’t have bothered to give us access to abortion. They were the ones who wanted to be able to terminate pregnancies and manipulate the products of conception at will.’

Earlier, related to this last point: Theorizing About the Modern Birth Control Scam.