tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post187717271038899222..comments2024-03-27T20:48:39.389-04:00Comments on [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Thailand's booming business in surrogacy is an ethical swampLorraine Duskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-71404673175310466322015-10-20T21:15:05.985-04:002015-10-20T21:15:05.985-04:00When I first read the comment, I assumed it was to...When I first read the comment, I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek. Then I Googled "New Life Surrogacy" and found a long list of New Life Surrogacy outfits. <br /><br />You're deluding yourself if you believe that poor Thai women become willing surrogates. You must be aware that they consent to this hideous exploitation of their bodies because they are poor and forced into surrogacy by male handlers just as other Thai women go into prostitution. <br /><br />As for gay male couples, they have other options. Have children with a lesbian couple who is willing to share parenting. Have a close relative be a surrogate. These options also give the child a mother, something for which there is no substitute. If these options are not available for the gay male couple, they can adopt a child who needs a family. <br /><br />Having a child is not an entitlement. People who use foreign surrogates are simply narcissists who need a child to feed their egos. New Life Surrogacy and its ilk who arrange for poor foreign women to bear the children are no better than pimps.Jane Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715622112694146946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-13359322684871623852015-10-20T10:18:02.367-04:002015-10-20T10:18:02.367-04:00Surrogacy may be unethical to say but there are ma...Surrogacy may be unethical to say but there are many couples who are relying and taking the procedure as their only hope. Yes, we can say that the woman who carries the child may sound like breeding puppy but still with their consent and willingness this is acceptable. Let's make an example of Gay couple who wants to have a child and their only hope is through surrogacy. we cannot deny the fact that this is the only way. New Life Surrogacyhttp://www.placidway.com/profile/850/New-Life-Ukrainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-81258554563413674552015-03-05T12:48:24.434-05:002015-03-05T12:48:24.434-05:00An excellent option for would-be parents. Just as ...An excellent option for would-be parents. Just as slavery was an excellent option for Southern land-owners. For slaves and foreign surrogates, not so much.<br /><br />Surrogacy is a tragic choice for many poor foreign women. They sacrifice their health and well-being for a few dollars. The children born to surrogates may suffer as this post documents. <br /><br />Ethical infertiles use American surrogates where there is at least some oversight. <br /><br />"Novel" reproductive technologies? More newspeak along with "adoption plan" and other distorted appellations of the child procuring industries. Jane Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715622112694146946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-35840888384834420282015-03-05T01:51:09.996-05:002015-03-05T01:51:09.996-05:00Although using a surrogate mother/ surrogacy is st...Although using a surrogate mother/ surrogacy is still not very common, it is an excellent option for people for having a baby through novel reproductive technologieskiran ivf genetichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10549452055569307089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-23648385111127503522014-08-30T19:53:46.086-04:002014-08-30T19:53:46.086-04:00"A pending ban on surrogacy in Thailand is li..."A pending ban on surrogacy in Thailand is likely not to end the practice there but drive it underground. "<br /><br />And that's exactly what happened in Australia. Lorraine I almost never agree with your positions but in this case I am with you. The reality is as long as our society puts a greater value on being a parent than not people will go to certain measures to become parents. That doesn't mean it's justified it just means it's not going away and that rather than banning things like surrogacy it should be regulated requiring all parties to be fully educated on it.<br /><br />Forget what these people have been through anyone who is human wouldn't have done what they have done. All they are doing is making it more difficult for those who utilize surrogacy who are respectful of the surrogate and her role in the child being born. As Lori said why can't we all work together and respect one another?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-89206488625325186792014-08-30T10:33:44.536-04:002014-08-30T10:33:44.536-04:00AND more importantly what happens to t he product...AND more importantly what happens to t he product that was created for someone to make MONEY?<br /><br />Have heard here in the US that woman do it to pay school loans buy cars etc. The buyers just want a baby any baby...the person born is nothing but a "purchase" and if that "purchase is not good enough it is returned to never be cared about again. Surrogate may not care and the people that "just want a baby" don't care. Another broken human, broken from birth because they are not good enough.dpennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-84561463494166837772014-08-29T23:35:49.608-04:002014-08-29T23:35:49.608-04:00It makes me ache inside that we are treating peopl...It makes me ache inside that we are treating people like animals. Women, the giver of life, the mother of all, is treated like a breeding bitch in a puppy mill. And we claim it is because of all the infertility, etc. I would like to know if it isn't more about the idiotic "body image" and monetary gain that occurs. The body image of the wealthy that can afford to hire someone else to give birth and monetary gain of those women that can't afford to be that choosy where their money comes from.<br /><br />In the military, when a US service man leaves behind a child, he is not always held responsible for that child. This is wholly different than our allies military personnel. If a woman speaks up when a British military man leaves her pregnant, the man is held responsible for the child's care, education and upbringing... as well as citizenship bestowed without question. At least that is what I was told when I questioned the way US soldiers left behind millions of babies after wars. <br /><br />At the same time, a baby born to a US citizen - mother or father - is automatically a US citizen, no matter where the child is born. The catch - the US citizen parent must CLAIM the child. So this mess in Thailand is yet another way that people can avoid things like children with downs or defects.... abandon them on a poor mother in a poor country and refuse to acknowledge them. <br /><br />Why can't women work together? Why can't we just be strong enough to know that we are being bought and sold through this adoption and surrogacy business? I am ill even from reading it and feel the need to bathe.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815710859859029536noreply@blogger.com