The Perils of Surrogate Motherhood
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The Perils of Surrogate Motherhood
PLUS Chinese grandmother gives birth to IVF twins
Author and bioethicist Fiorella Nash discusses the dangers of surrogacy, from the health risks to the violation of women and children’s rights, to the dark underbelly of the world of human trafficking.
God’s children are not for sale.
Neither are their mothers.
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The surrogacy industry is skyrocketing. If prostitution or the sale of organs spiked this quickly, we would pay attention. But when women sell gestational motherhood, we turn a blind eye to the risks to both mother and child.
Scientists want to use CRISPR to edit disease out of livestock so industrial farming can continue using unsustainable, hazardous practices.
A 59-year-old Chinese grandmother gave birth to IVF twins to ease the pain of her loneliness — and take over the household chores by age 8. Using children as a salve to parental wounds is unjust, as is artificially creating children who are exponentially more likely to be orphaned at an early age.
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
What Price Better Health by Daniel Callahan
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The Perils of Surrogate Motherhood
From even a mechanistic point of view, people buying surrogate motherhood in places like Thailand (India actually banned it; then Thailand saw a boom in business) may not appreciate epigenetics. Do you really think a child gestated in the womb of a poor Thai girl is going to be someone you can predict based on your and your partner's DNA? It doesn't work that way.
From a justice viewpoint notice that it isn't rich women who farm themselves out as surrogate mothers. How about, you're pregnant for nine months, feel the baby stirring inside you, give birth, then have him snatched away while you're still post-partum and probably grieving. People who can pay for surrogate mothers are the same people who go to China for a kidney and don't give a damn which Uighur it came out of.
It's "science" like this that makes me hate modern medicine. It's a witch's brew.