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~Call me old-fashioned, but I find something wrong with surrogate mothers. Not particularly for obvious reasons, like the squeamish reality that it's somebody else's baby in your body or that your husband's sperm is hanging out in another woman, but more so because I can't get over this obsession we have with making our children our own mirror-image.
What I mean is, surrogate mother-ship is expensive... VERY expensive, and all for the sake of birthing a child that is related to you genetically. There are so, so, so many children out there that need good homes... that wish for adoption every day. These parents are spending boatloads of cash for testtube babies when there are already needy babies out there who could sufficiently benefit from a boatload or two.
It's one thing to have a genetically related child when you can bear them with little to no problems. But to go through all the distress and problems of invitro and surrogateship... why? JUST for the genetics? What's the harm in adopting?
I confess it's a personal opinion, and just not the way I would do things. Sometimes I am just concerned at the need of our society to worship at the great altar of science, adopting the motto "We CAN do it, so we SHOULD do it" without exploring other avenues or, hell, just accepting that that's life sometimes. Science is such a double-edged sword; it promises the ability to enhance life, and the ability to disfigure it so it no longer resembles life at all.
What I mean is, surrogate mother-ship is expensive... VERY expensive, and all for the sake of birthing a child that is related to you genetically. There are so, so, so many children out there that need good homes... that wish for adoption every day. These parents are spending boatloads of cash for testtube babies when there are already needy babies out there who could sufficiently benefit from a boatload or two.
It's one thing to have a genetically related child when you can bear them with little to no problems. But to go through all the distress and problems of invitro and surrogateship... why? JUST for the genetics? What's the harm in adopting?
I confess it's a personal opinion, and just not the way I would do things. Sometimes I am just concerned at the need of our society to worship at the great altar of science, adopting the motto "We CAN do it, so we SHOULD do it" without exploring other avenues or, hell, just accepting that that's life sometimes. Science is such a double-edged sword; it promises the ability to enhance life, and the ability to disfigure it so it no longer resembles life at all.