| This is a loaded question full of ethical and value | | | | investment for the wealthy. |
| judgments. Healthy fertile people do use surrogates | | | | Many would say that clinics which require infertility on |
| and will continue to use surrogates where it is legal. | | | | the part of a parent for surrogacy do so for sound |
| For some reason the woman or the couple does not | | | | ethical reasons. Should people be aloud to hire |
| want to go through a pregnancy and surrogacy has | | | | someone to have a child for them simply because |
| become an option for them. | | | | they can afford it or for their convenience? What |
| No one can determine this is the right thing for them | | | | are the reasons the couple do not want to carry |
| to do except the couple themselves with the | | | | their own child, vanity, convenience or a sense of |
| assistance of their doctor or a surrogacy clinic. In | | | | entitlement? |
| some clinics there needs to be an infertility problem | | | | Some might ask whether a child produced in this way |
| for the surrogacy contract to proceed? In other | | | | would be loved to the same extent or whether it is |
| clinics it does not necessary. | | | | a genetic commodity. Should persons have the |
| People that do not accept surrogacy certainly will not | | | | privilege (some might go as far as to call their right) |
| accept a healthy couple's decision to have a | | | | to ask another human being to take on the burden, |
| surrogate. We have been given the technology to | | | | inconvenience, pain and physical risk (which includes |
| make these choices. Some people are more open to | | | | the risk of possible death) simply because they can |
| it than others. For any surrogacy arrangement, a | | | | afford to pay for it. |
| couple has to be fairly well to do. We hear about | | | | The fact that some people are so financially |
| celebrities hiring surrogates often, whether they are | | | | desperate that they would take this risk or have |
| healthy or not. It has become a choice. People will | | | | altruistic reasons so that another person may have a |
| make value judgments as they see fit. | | | | child does not remove any of the ethical concerns. |
| Although it takes a considerable sum of money for | | | | Those who think that having a child in this way is an |
| anyone to use a surrogate mother, some people are | | | | outpouring of altruism for the surrogate mother may |
| well off enough that they may use a surrogate for | | | | avoid ethical dilemmas simply by giving the amount of |
| convenience or to avoid personal health risks. This is | | | | the fee to a young woman or couple who are not |
| ethically problematic for many people. | | | | financially well off. |
| Some couples are desperate to have a child and are | | | | One might also question whether clinics that do not |
| willing to invest large sums of money to become | | | | require infertility for surrogacy have an over arching |
| parents. This is a much different issue for them then | | | | monetary and profit motive which presents another |
| for people who are able to undergo natural childbirth. | | | | ethical dilemma of its own. |
| Put another way, it is not the same level of | | | | |