Surrogacy : Lets Make More Babies

There is controversy surrounding the concept of surrogacy in the United States. There is nothing in federal legislature the addresses the issue directly. Different States have different laws concerning surrogacy. Some forbid it and some enforce surrogacy contracts in court. Finding a surrogate mother, for some is their last chance to have a child that is biologically their own. There are people that believe that surrogacy is morally wrong for several reasons. I believe that if it is done properly then it can be a blessing for a family that would not have been able to have their own children, otherwise.

Commercial surrogacy is the process in which a woman is paid a fee to carry and deliver a baby to term. Once the baby is delivered, the woman relinquishes all parental rights to the commissioning couple who exclusively raise the child as their own. Altruistic surrogacy, by contrast, is an arrangement where the surrogate receives reimbursement but only for the expenses that she may have incurred during the pregnancy. In this essay I will argue that commercial surrogacy should not be market-inalienable. I will start by outlining Elizabeth Anderson’s argument in “Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?” in which she offers a number of criticisms to commercial surrogacy. I will then outline objections to the argument and highlight how her argument is highly speculative and does not provide an adequate basis for the prohibition of commercial surrogacy.

Baby Business by Insight on SBS had a discussion about surrogacy in relation to a couple that had a baby though surrogacy. In the show it was said that most surrogate mothers have genetically babies, which the mother gives her egg and the father gives his sperm and the doctor inseminates it in the surrogate mother. Most of the everyday people have to the term “renting a womb” towards surrogacy whereas the Women Health Resources

Purdy defends surrogate mothering from a consequentialist point of view. Her case is founded on two premises: firstly, that surrogacy is favourable (that is, it brings about pleasure and reduces pain), and secondly, that the practice is only non-traditional and not morally reprehensible. She thus concludes that "appealing to the sacrosanctity of traditional marriage or of blood ties to prohibit otherwise acceptable practices that would satisfy people 's desires hardly makes sense", and thus, surrogacy should be permissible (Purdy, 1999).

When one or more persons contract with a woman to gestate a child than relinquish that child after birth to the person or couple is known as surrogacy. It is a course of action that goes outside of natural reproduction. For some, it is the only method of having children, extending family. Surrogacy has been stirring up many controversies over the years. Ethics, morals, laws, religious views, etc. have played a major role in the issues that follow the topic of surrogacy. Laws and regulations pertaining to surrogacy vary from state to state. Some states have no enforceable laws

Opinion will continue to be divided on whether commercial-surrogacy arrangements devalue children and women in intangible ways. But what has become clear is that well-designed regulation can greatly mitigate most of the potential tangible harms of surrogacy, and this would seem to be the appropriate function of law in a liberal society in response to an issue on which no societal consensus

According to the Issues & Controversies Infobase, “Surrogate” is a term that refers to a substitute, a person, place, or thing employed to represent or take the place of another. This term is commonly referred to a woman who agrees to carry another couple’s child in her womb. After birth, the surrogate mother parts with the baby and the child goes on to live with the parents in which she carried the baby for. This practice of surrogacy was widely unaccepted, however, the recent development of artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization has made surrogacy more feasible and accepted. This Issues & Controversies article shines a light on both the pro and anti sides of surrogacy and the facts to back up each side.

Simply, surrogacy involves an agreement between a commissioning couple and a woman, known as the surrogate, who agrees to bear a child for the commissioning couple, and once the baby is born, will give the baby to the commissioning couple. Often this involves the use of sperm and/or ova from the commissioning couple which are conceived to the surrogate using birth technologies. The act of commercial surrogacy is illegal in Australia, however in certain states and the Northern Territory it is still legal to travel overseas to seek out such services commercially. The Australian couple the article focuses on is a prime example of this as they travelled to New Delhi in India to seek out such a surrogacy service.

There are many issues in modern times that are on questionable grounds regarding the moral and ethical reasoning for such arguments. One of those ethical debates is in regards to commercial surrogacy. Surrogacy itself is a morally sound gesture; it is meant to be a way of a family acquiring a child that they would not be able to reproduce on their own, involving a third party. It is when the child is paid for by that family and the third person is compensated that the issues arrive. Should surrogacy be an available marketing resource? What justifies marketing a woman’s sexual capacities? In this paper, I will be discussing the argument presented by Debra Satz who is opposed to surrogacy, in the counter argument to support it.

By definition, surrogacy means getting another woman and using her womb to carry out a child of a couple using their own sperm and egg cells. There is also another type of surrogate pregnancy where the egg cells of the woman they are renting the womb from is the one used instead of the wife of the husband. But the husband's sperm would still be the one placed

With the development of technology, those people who are infertile can choose surrogacy to have their own baby. Most of the countries ban commercial surrogacy, meanwhile a small number of countries such as the United States, India, and Russia allow commercial surrogacy (Winddance, 2015). It is grateful to have a newborn baby, but the commercial surrogacy is distorting the original essence of it. I think the commercial surrogacy is rotting the society and increasing social problems. In order to support my point, I will discuss further with Haimowitz and Sinha’s documentary and Winddance’s book.

Surrogate mothers carry another couple’s child with her own eggs or fertilized eggs from other women. Surrogate motherhood is unethical and needs to be banned due to the fact that reproductive technologies are inhuman and a form of violence therefore, as surrogacy becomes more popular, legal problems proliferate. Reproductive technologies such as In Vitro Fertilization and surrogacy are a form of violence against women because they technologically ravage women's bodies. In Vitro Fertilization is a medical procedure that's done where an egg is fertilized by sperm in a test tube (Raymond 1). The procedure is just inhuman in many ways, the mother is not naturally carrying the bay when fertilized egg and sperm are implanted

Surrogacy is defined as a practice that can be used when a woman who cannot have a child has another woman become pregnant and deliver the child for her. 1The other woman is called a surrogate mother. In order to do this an egg from the planned mother or a donor is fertilized with sperm from the planned father or a donor. The embryo or embryos are then transported into the surrogate mother that carries and delivers the baby.1

During a surrogacy adoption, another woman will carry the couple’s child to term on their behalf. Often, the couple’s genetic material will be injected into the uterus of this woman; therefore, the child she carries may not be biologically related to her. Surrogacy adoption provides parents struggling with infertility the opportunity to bring a biological child into the world. In other cases, donor eggs or sperm may be used.

Some view altruistic surrogacy as a form of exploiting the surrogate. There is no monetary compensation to woman placing her health and well-being on the line for another’s benefit. However, it can also be held that the woman knowingly entered into the agreement with full disclosure of the risks and benefits to her health and body. Again, autonomy and justice are extremely prevalent ethical principles to explore when discussing the topic of surrogacy. Same-sex marriage has become a hot topic in the United States in the last few years. The idea of raising a family by homosexual