When I heard Pope Francis called for the banning of surrogacy worldwide, I sighed. The state of surrogacy Surrogacy is not legal in Louisiana and Michigan (See Graph 1.)  The legality of surrogacy focuses primarily on the payment to the surrogate and parentage.  Lauen Danelowski examines the literature on reproductive labor.   She posits that if surrogacy were viewed as “work,” surrogates would …