Reasons to Oppose Surrogacy

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In light of the inherent dignity of every human person involved in the “transaction,” it is telling that people need a reason to see how unthinkable it is to practice animal husbandry on human beings, making even cooperative women into brood mares or cooperative men into sperm donors for other people. How can they not see this applies even for blood relatives, let alone for total strangers? Human procreation should never be made into a transaction, no matter how little it disturbs or how much it delights the emotions of the persons making the decision.

The idea that the ethical decision is made easier and better by making this into a clinical transaction that removes natural sexual intercourse between the child’s parents from the “project” is particularly despicable.

What if a wife were both egg donor and surrogate and her husband were the sperm donor and the child were conceived without any help from medical clinicians? We’d more obviously be talking about selling your flesh and blood! Why on earth a less-personal and more clinical means of reproduction or why a friendly relationship between the sellers and the buyers of the child changes that math is totally beyond me.
 
Good article, but some of the comments below made me dizzy sick.
 
The article was straightforward and to the point. Thanks for posting it. I can’t personally imagine buying a baby from some poor woman who may be in desperate straights willing to say if the baby has any “defects” it must be aborted.

Once you sign on the legal dotted line you can’t get a baby back. I can’t imagine the emotional scars this leaves on some people.

St Michael the Archangel defend us in battle.

Mary.
 
redbetta said:
Good article, but some of the comments below made me dizzy sick.
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The surrogates who believe they are doing a great service by renting out their wombs often seem well-intentioned–not all of them make any profit off it at all–but like loose women who say they feel sorry for men who don’t have marital sex available, their objections to moral boundaries ring false. Just because someone has no recourse to a legitimate source of something others find rewarding or enriching does not make the illegitimate avenues suddenly OK. There are worse things than not having what you legitimately wish you could have.

The secular humanists looking forward to the day humans can be synthesized to order from a synthesis facility as if they were Fords and Toyotas give me the willies. Heaven forbid. I’m a scientist, and I still think we’d be better off if science were thrown back a thousand years than to have that become one of the norms of human reproduction.
 
redbetta said:
Good article, but some of the comments below made me dizzy sick.
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I didn’t read the comments at first, but went back and read them. One comment about medical tourism to nations with advanced legal “reproductive technologies” made me think that in the future, there might be a booming export business in the sale of babies. What a dismal prospect.
 
JimG said:
I didn’t read the comments at first, but went back and read them. One comment about medical tourism to nations with advanced legal “reproductive technologies” made me think that in the future, there might be a booming export business in the sale of babies. What a dismal prospect.
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Oregon is very popular for both surrogacy tourism and physician-assisted suicide. (It probably goes without saying that this is one of the most un-churched states in the country?)
 
EasterJoy said:
The surrogates who believe they are doing a great service by renting out their wombs often seem well-intentioned–not all of them make any profit off it at all–but like loose women who say they feel sorry for men who don’t have marital sex available, their objections to moral boundaries ring false. Just because someone has no recourse to a legitimate source of something others find rewarding or enriching does not make the illegitimate avenues suddenly OK. There are worse things than not having what you legitimately wish you could have.

The secular humanists looking forward to the day humans can be synthesized to order from a synthesis facility as if they were Fords and Toyotas give me the willies. Heaven forbid. I’m a scientist, and I still think we’d be better off if science were thrown back a thousand years than to have that become one of the norms of human reproduction.
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Not me.

One thousand years ago, defective infants were thrown into the snow, and in places, nobles had sexual rights over peasant women.

Technology may make certain sins more attractive, but every human era has its specific sins.

ICXC NIKA
 
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