Women and Surrogates: Messes Up Future

Category: Controversy, Commentaries
Volume 1 Article 2


This Snippet was Taken from: Surrogateparenting.com (located in San Diego). 

"What are the qualifications to be a surrogate?

You must have had one or more easy pregnancies and deliveries.
You must be between the ages of 21 and 40.
You must have at least one child of your own living with you.
You must be a non-smoker.
You must have reliable transportation.
You must be financially stable.
You must have a desire to help another in a special way.

…And you must love being pregnant!
Types of Surrogacy
There are two types of surrogates, gestational and traditional. Both types are just as safe as traditional pregnancy but are very different.

A Gestational Surrogate is the most common type of surrogacy.  A Gestational Surrogate carries a child that is not related to her in any way.  The embryo is usually created through the intended mother’s egg and intended father’s sperm using in vitro fertilization or IVF.  It is then transferred to the surrogate, who acts as a human incubator, carrying the parent’s baby through to birth.  Sometimes the mother’s eggs or father’s sperm cannot be used. In this case, a donor’s egg or sperm is used, and this is called traditional surrogacy.

A Traditional Surrogate acts as both egg donor and surrogate.  Traditional Surrogates are impregnated by a process called intrauterine insemination or IUI. A doctor takes sperm from the intended father and transfers it into the uterus of the surrogate. Then after, natural fertilization of the egg takes place. "

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Well there you have it. Every woman loves being pregnant! Every woman loves the joy of giving birth, preparing for labor, and giving away a baby they might not ever see again for money! Who wouldn't want to do that! Also it is helping out another in a special way. A very special way. Putting the controversy of Surrogate issues aside....here are some other things to think about besides the moral and immoral implications of this "Business of Helping".

If you pay a Surrogate 35,000 dollars (maybe 16,000 I don't know their lowly costs)...then what will happen IF the woman gets stressed out and sneaks a few cigarettes in the middle of the night? Or she recklessly decides to sip a glass of wine or drinks a glass of beer at a local bar one night? WHO will pay for the crime committed if the baby comes out less than ABSOLUTELY Perfect?

Can you sue the Surrogate Mother if the baby has Autism? Or if the baby has unusual allergies? Might as well take the Surrogate to court and sue the sh*t out of her right? Can you prove the baby was not perfectly well inside of the womb? What if the baby's genetic predisposition came from one of the surrogate eggs or the father's sperm or the natural mother's eggs? Who is going to know from which it came from if the baby has an unusual disease or defect? Perhaps the Surrogate forgot to be honest on the "family history" questionnaire or the mother who gave the eggs was not aware of her genetic past. All of these issues will arrive eventually and you are going to have a lot of pissed off parents who are going to yell years down the line "It was that Dam* Surrogate!".

Surrogates are great to blame for everything. You can tell them they are "really special" and pay them a lot of money and you can count on strangers to do the best job possible I am sure. But in the end women don't "love being pregnant". They love being pregnant because they get to keep the baby.
If you have a sister, a best friend or family member as a surrogate that is less wrong than hiring a complete stranger who you will never really see again after the baby is born. Women are not Mules and I don't like this BS Breeding System we got going on here.

Please don't sue the surrogate she probably already spent her measly 30,000 dollars. Not to mention that years down the line Bill Gates is going to complain about the millions more people breathing our precious air and causing more problems with Oxygen loss. You can thank the government when they get ahold of this problem and give us a new solution: "Licenses to Give Birth and Have Babies".
That will happen next. Breeding Systems always cause problems down the line. Yep. That is what we have to look forward to. That and producing children like products and the perfect race with Genetic Counselors. The Perfect Breeding Era is here. What a wonderful Generation we have.