Outsourced Wombs

[Sr_Sally]

I know we’ve discussed the issue before. But I wanted to share this article. I loved the comments about having a baby (from any source at all) not being a “right” but a gift. That is how I have always felt about it.

From the comments section:

What is not being questioned here is the assumption held in the western world that a woman/person has THE RIGHT to have a child. This supposedly god-given or “natural” biological destiny then renders rational debate on the lengths some women (and their partners) will go to obtain their child, invalid. Mixed up in this is the advances made by modern medicine which make it possible for previously infertile women to have a child. Ethical debate and resultant laws have lagged far behind the medical advances. This is further complicated by women/couples seeking assistance in countries whose laws differ markedly (if they have any at all on the subject) and a large population of people living in poverty ripe for exploitation.

 

[seekerz]

On following your link what I found most disturbing were some of the comments from people who seemed to seen nothing wrong with “outsourcing”.

How many ways can man invent to exploit another? Isn’t India the same country where so many baby girls are aborted for being unwanted? Wouldn’t the money be better spent paying women not to abort and then adopting the babies? But then of course, the children wouldn’t look like Mommy and Daddy and their genetic make-up and pre-natal exposure couldn’t be controlled…

How Orwellian (not to mention totally immoral and unfair to the unborn babies being churned off the assembly line for profit)!

 

[Sr_Sally]

That’s why I really liked the comment about having a child not being a right. Because the people looking for a living incubator obviously feel they ‘deserve’ a child that looks like them and whose health history they can control. I’m not sure about India aborting or exposing girl babies (I think that is more common in China), but yes, if that is so, then those couples should try to adopt them. But even then, it seems like the best solution would be to assist the Indian family in keeping their own children. Only if the child is truly orphaned should adoption be a consideration.

Of course this is all in my perfect world.

 

[seekerz]

But even then, it seems like the best solution would be to assist the Indian family in keeping their own children. Only if the child is truly orphaned should adoption be a consideration.

Of course this is all in my perfect world.

Poverty isn’t necessarily the reason these girls are killed - it’s more about cultural pressures to have boys. Faced with the ingrained mindset that girls are inferior and less desirable, we might as well consider those babies orphans.

Don’t I know what you mean about the ‘perfect world’! Guess that’s why we follow Him who is able to make it a reality…