Should Surrogacy Be Encouraged Among Couples Who Cannot Have Children?
Should Surrogacy be Encouraged among Couples Who Cannot have Children?
What is surrogacy? Surrogacy is where a ‘woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo’ (Collins English Dictionary, 2008). This is usually because the wife is infertile or otherwise unable to undergo pregnancy. As mentioned by Rogers, (2006) surrogacy can be also said as a woman which is also similarly known as the surrogate mother or the surrogate will be carrying and delivering a baby whom by undergoing a controversial process which is mostly illegal in all the states after an official arrangement between the surrogate and the intended couple or individual. The history of commercial surrogacy started in the US in the late 70's in the twentieth century when a lawyer named Noel Keane started to create the first agency of surrogacy. He defied the legislative power in Michigan and after that he decided to move to open additional agencies where he carried out surrogacy arrangements laws (SYL, 2006) There are two types of surrogacy which is traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy. According to COTS (2007), for traditional surrogacy, the surrogate uses her own egg fertilized with the intended father's sperm whereas for the gestational surrogacy, the surrogate carries the intended parent's genetic child conceived through in-vitro-fertilization, for which specialist doctors are needed and for this treatment the infertile woman must still have working ovaries.
Despite the advantages of surrogacy, for many years there are still numerous people tend to argue that surrogacy brings many disadvantages. Even though many people believe that surrogacy should be legalized especially for couples who cannot have children, I think it should not be encouraged due to a number of negative repercussions.
The first argument put forward by the opponents is that, surrogacy may be the best
What is surrogacy? Surrogacy is where a ‘woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo’ (Collins English Dictionary, 2008). This is usually because the wife is infertile or otherwise unable to undergo pregnancy. As mentioned by Rogers, (2006) surrogacy can be also said as a woman which is also similarly known as the surrogate mother or the surrogate will be carrying and delivering a baby whom by undergoing a controversial process which is mostly illegal in all the states after an official arrangement between the surrogate and the intended couple or individual. The history of commercial surrogacy started in the US in the late 70's in the twentieth century when a lawyer named Noel Keane started to create the first agency of surrogacy. He defied the legislative power in Michigan and after that he decided to move to open additional agencies where he carried out surrogacy arrangements laws (SYL, 2006) There are two types of surrogacy which is traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy. According to COTS (2007), for traditional surrogacy, the surrogate uses her own egg fertilized with the intended father's sperm whereas for the gestational surrogacy, the surrogate carries the intended parent's genetic child conceived through in-vitro-fertilization, for which specialist doctors are needed and for this treatment the infertile woman must still have working ovaries.
Despite the advantages of surrogacy, for many years there are still numerous people tend to argue that surrogacy brings many disadvantages. Even though many people believe that surrogacy should be legalized especially for couples who cannot have children, I think it should not be encouraged due to a number of negative repercussions.
The first argument put forward by the opponents is that, surrogacy may be the best