ENGL 1301 paper 2 surrogacy
The Demands of Surrogacy
What is the reality of surrogacy today? Is it the miracle of helping couples complete their families with a baby? Is it pushing technology to surpass Mother Nature so that infertile couples or same sex couples can have a child of their own? How far will we go as a country, a nation, or a world to ensure a couple has a baby? Are the motives surrounding this process in the best interest of the families and the baby? The reality of surrogacy is the demand. With demand comes great responsibility and with the demand for surrogacy growing so rapidly, we have a responsibility to ensure the safety of the surrogate, couples seeking surrogacy and the child. To ensure safety, laws and regulations must be implemented not only state wide but nationally as well. Surrogacy today involves a woman who carries and gives birth to an infant for another couple, who usually is infertile; however, recently more non-traditional couples like those who are same sex, are also utilizing this process to complete their families. This pregnancy is established by way of a pre-arranged legal contract. The idea is that the woman will carry the child throughout the duration of the pregnancy and then upon birth, relinquish all parental rights. The whole process is a miracle in itself. The very fact that couples have another option to adoption including the ability to use their own biological material for conception is truly remarkable. “Scientific advances and increasing social acceptance for non-traditional methods of family formation have made surrogacy both possible and more popular.” With society on board Just ask couple’s who have tried to conceive or same sex couples that now hold babies in their arms, how life changing this process is. It has been established that for this process to work, you must have an alternative womb. So where do surrogates come from? Many states have laws that prohibit surrogacy or make the whole process so difficult that many
What is the reality of surrogacy today? Is it the miracle of helping couples complete their families with a baby? Is it pushing technology to surpass Mother Nature so that infertile couples or same sex couples can have a child of their own? How far will we go as a country, a nation, or a world to ensure a couple has a baby? Are the motives surrounding this process in the best interest of the families and the baby? The reality of surrogacy is the demand. With demand comes great responsibility and with the demand for surrogacy growing so rapidly, we have a responsibility to ensure the safety of the surrogate, couples seeking surrogacy and the child. To ensure safety, laws and regulations must be implemented not only state wide but nationally as well. Surrogacy today involves a woman who carries and gives birth to an infant for another couple, who usually is infertile; however, recently more non-traditional couples like those who are same sex, are also utilizing this process to complete their families. This pregnancy is established by way of a pre-arranged legal contract. The idea is that the woman will carry the child throughout the duration of the pregnancy and then upon birth, relinquish all parental rights. The whole process is a miracle in itself. The very fact that couples have another option to adoption including the ability to use their own biological material for conception is truly remarkable. “Scientific advances and increasing social acceptance for non-traditional methods of family formation have made surrogacy both possible and more popular.” With society on board Just ask couple’s who have tried to conceive or same sex couples that now hold babies in their arms, how life changing this process is. It has been established that for this process to work, you must have an alternative womb. So where do surrogates come from? Many states have laws that prohibit surrogacy or make the whole process so difficult that many
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