Surrogate Motherhood

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Surrogate Motherhood is something that not many people actually support, even though it “is one of the many reproductive techniques that have enabled infertile couples to have children” (qtd. in Freedman). There are two types of surrogacy, traditional and gestational. The traditional type of surrogacy involves the surrogate mother being (AI) artificially inseminated with the sperm of the intended father or sperm from a donor when the sperm count is low. In either case the surrogate’s own egg will be used. Genetically the surrogate becomes the mother of the resulting child (Storey). Although there are two different types of surrogacy, a traditional surrogacy is rarely seen or done anymore. In gestational surrogacy, the surrogate mother has no genetic ties to the offspring. Eggs and sperm are extracted from the donors and in vitro fertilized and implanted into uterus of the surrogate (Storey). A Surrogate Mother carries and delivers the child for the couple, afterwards getting paid for doing so- it is unheard of that you see someone do this voluntarily. People see this type of technique as such an irrational thing because they believe that the woman is giving away “her” child without it genetically being hers. Interestingly enough, most of the individuals that are opposed to this are actually not even against adoption; these couples that are paying for a woman to carry their baby actually have a biological relation to that child. Surrogate Motherhood should not be banned, but should be regulated by law because these people are giving unfortunate couples a chance to bring life into this world. If everyday partners have the right to have a child, what makes others that are unable to do it naturally any different? Some things are inev...

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