To Fight Surrogacy, We Must Emphasise Material Reality For this week's FD original, we're so glad to bring you an essay by Miriam Cates, Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge. Ms. Cates argues that surrogacy exposes the limits of rights-based politics, which overlooks the best interests of babies and children. The movement opposing surrogacy would do well to look on the gender-critical movement as a model for how to winningly connect ideas with reality.