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Is having a baby that results from a loving relationship the same as having a baby being created via a business transaction?
Why has having a baby by any means become socially acceptable and a source of pride and joy?
Should society prioritize the “rights” of adults longing to be parents over those of children? Is having a child – by any means – a “right” at all? In fact, despite the pain of infertility and the very real longing to parent, there is no right to have a child.
Adopters are (theoretically, at least) vetted in an effort to screen out potential abusers who might use that means to acquire victims. But surrogacy by-passes all such home studies allowing only the ability to pay as the sole criterion.
This dichotomy between the physiological hormonal reaction to the pregnancy for mother and fetus and the mother’s attempt to do what she has been told to do create a major and stressful conflict. Body and mind are in battle creating many stressful hormones.
Will we continue down this path and invent artificial wombs, further denying neonates’ needs and creating human commodities? Are we totally obsessed with capitalism, consumerism, and entitlement of those who can afford to buy whatever they want that we are willing to ignore the harm?
Source: All Ways of Family Building are NOT Equal and do Not Protect Child’s Rights | Dissident Voice