Action Alert!

HB 350 is moving quickly through the General Assembly.

PA HB 350, deceptively called Providing Stability for Pennsylvania Kids and their Families, passed a PA House floor vote today (June 23, 2025) by 112-91. Constituents of the main sponsor, Representative Benjamin Sanchez, D-153, have informed me that he frequently votes against women.

You can read Sanchez’s complete Memorandum here. Briefly, it states:

Our bill, the Uniform Parentage Act, will change that by providing clear rules for the determination of legal parentage, particularly for children born through assisted reproduction. It also provides safeguards for individuals [sic] acting as surrogates, and equal protection for ALL children and families, regardless of the marital status of the parents or the circumstances of the children’s birth. The UPA will protect children from protracted, harmful litigation, and help to ensure continuity in the emotional and financial support of their parents. [Emphases added.]

You can see how your representative voted here.

HB 350 encourages the buying and selling of human beings — women and children. Commercial surrogacy operations already heavily advertise to vulnerable, poor, and desperate women — frequently women of color — that by renting their uterus to a wealthy couple — usually white, sometimes gay male — they can make quick and easy money. HB 350 then requires that these duped mothers permanently forfeit their parental rights to the child to whom they gave birth. HB 350 says that buying children is perfectly acceptable when it is really human trafficking. Finally, HB 350’s language even erases women from their essential biological role in the process (see above.)

Even worse, the bill’s cosponsors have stated that there is “virtually no opposition” to HB 350. This is false. Numerous women’s and children’s organizations have submitted testimony opposing this bill.

The major groups supporting this bill are attorneys and surrogacy companies who will profit from it — both literally and figuratively.

We need to tell our PA representatives and senators that women and children are NOT for sale. We oppose all commercial sexual exploitation of women, including surrogacy. Commercial surrogacy is dehumanizing, not noble, empowering, and altruistic as operators — run by men, usually white — claim it is. If it were, then why don’t wealthy white women rent their uteri to the highest bidder?

We empathize with infertile people, but no one has a right to buy children from vulnerable and mislead women. And no woman is obliged to risk her life and health to carry a pregnancy to term for someone else.

Please contact your representative and either chastise or thank them for their vote on HB 350. Then contact your senator and urge them to vote NO on HB 350.

Thank you for protecting women and children from commercial exploitation!