I don't know all of the details on this, but I believe some states allow it. New York state government has proposed a bill to make it legal in their state. What say you? Should paid surrogacy be legal or illegal?
I don't know all of the details on this, but I believe some states allow it. New York state government has proposed a bill to make it legal in their state. What say you? Should paid surrogacy be legal or illegal?
I don't know all of the details on this, but I believe some states allow it. New York state government has proposed a bill to make it legal in their state. What say you? Should paid surrogacy be legal or illegal?
Isn't New York one of the three states where it is currently banned? What's going on in the other 47?
I have no problem with it's legality.
IMO people should have control over their own bodies. So as far as I am concerned, prostitution, bondage, personal drug use, a person's choice to alter their appearance via plastic surgery, a woman's right to choose, a person's desire for assisted suicide...and paid surrogacy is all one in the same to me.
As long as it is a free choice made with the full understanding of the consequences, and acceptance of full responsibility for outcomes good or bad...I say why not? :shrug:
I found this:
U.S. Surrogacy Map | Creative Family Connections
I find it actually really surprising that NY has banned it.
This should absolutely be illegal. This is taking advantage of the poor for your own gain. I cannot imagine ripping a child away from a mother after childbirth. I know feminists like to use the woman as an incubator trope when discussing abortion, but in this instance that's absolutely what's going on.
If it's the poor woman's choice to do it, how is that wrong?
Because it's exploitative. She's not freely consenting to it. She only chooses it out of necessity.
And besides, even if she freely consents, what of the right of the child to know his mother?
I found this:
U.S. Surrogacy Map | Creative Family Connections
I find it actually really surprising that NY has banned it.
Because this philosophy neglects the possibility of exploitation.
Isn't New York one of the three states where it is currently banned? What's going on in the other 47?
This should absolutely be illegal. This is taking advantage of the poor for your own gain. I cannot imagine ripping a child away from a mother after childbirth. I know feminists like to use the woman as an incubator trope when discussing abortion, but in this instance that's absolutely what's going on.
She wouldn't be his/her mother unless she provided the egg.
And isn't everything we do to earn money out of necessity?
If it's the poor woman's choice to do it, how is that wrong?
I didn't realize something like that was illegal. As long as everyone is a consenting adult I don't see why it should be illegal.
Because it's exploitative. She's not freely consenting to it. She only chooses it out of necessity.
And besides, even if she freely consents, what of the right of the child to know his mother?
No it doesn't. :roll:
What part of "free choice" do you fail to grasp? (Perhaps you thought I meant everyone, as you posted before I added "adults?")
Of course it does. When you have an extra room to spare to a family that's escaping a natural disaster, and you demand all of their possessions for the room, they might agree out of desperation, but you're certainly exploiting them. There's nothing fair about the transaction.
I think the argument in New York is about when the birth mother signs over all rights to the child.
The mother contributes far more than an egg.
And we have things like minimum wage and other labor laws to prevent exploitation in labor. Think of it this way: how much would you have to pay a middle class mother to engage in surrogacy? Presumably no amount would be enough. Now dangle a job offer worth $1 million, and she'd probably go for it.
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