SURROGATE MOTHERS ETHICAL OR UNETHICAL

Surrogate Mothers Ethical Or Unethical



Surrogate Mothers Ethical Or Unethical

Introduction

For most surrogate mothers they are expected to give up the child she has borne over approximately nine months willingly and if not by legal contract. The mother is not to have a relationship with the child after birth so that the child will only know its nurturing another couple and shall not be confused. Public controversy over surrogate motherhood is accelerating. Because surrogacy questions cherished culture beliefs and ideals regarding the mother - infant relationship.

Analysis

A critic of surrogacy say the problem that arises is that the mother naturally has a connection to the child formed during pregnancy and giving them up is very hard. The surrogate mother may suffer terrible and emotional distress in the long term because of the loss of her child. This may lead them to fight back for the. These result in legal battles such as the case of Baby M as the surrogate mother changed her mind and kidnapped the child (Elizabeth S. Anderson, 1990).

Also the couple going to have custody over the child may be ridiculed, or unsupported by their family and society. The child when born may also be subjected to this mocking and may feel inadequate to other children about the way it was born This follows the point of how to tell the child about how it was created. It would also be difficult to explain to the child that the parents paid for the ability to raise it. The amount of technological knowledge may be too much for the child to understand as well as the confusing idea of multiple parents, such as in the case of Jaycee as the court did not know who her real parents were as it was anonymously done (connection.ebscohost.com).

In today's society more and more items and services are being treated as products, and are being bought and sold. This, in a way has not turned to the service of providing children for couples. Just like a person would walk into a store, choose and item buy it and leave with a receipt. A couple wishing to have a child can walk into a clinic, choose a surrogate mother and buy the child she produces from her, and leave with a contract saying that the child is theirs legally (Elizabeth S. Anderson, 1990).

Many people who oppose this see the process as if the couple is buying the surrogate mother's gestational services and the clinic that oversees the whole process. This idea has been used to link it to a form of prostitution. In this case the couple purchases or rents the use of a woman or one of her body part for a period of time. The woman performs what she is told to do and leaves with a cash payment. In this case the clinic is seen as the pimp as it receives his cut of the woman's purchase price (Stephen Wilkinson ...