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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]…because (1) they can’t get pregnant or (2) for the convenience factor (ie, do not want to slow down career or “ruin” their body)?

Personally, I find it very disturbing if an otherwise healthy & fertile woman who can physically have a baby without issue pays someone else to carry her fertilized egg. Renting other people’s bodies in the absence of a compelling health issue or physical inability to carry to term seems….highly problematic. Almost akin to buying someone’s organ for a transplant.

It feels like we are seeing a wave of surrogacy right now in Hollywood that is disproportionate to their actual numbers.  Like, people are doing it because they can and there’s no real pushback.

[b]The only people I know IRL using surrogates are gay male couples. And that’s a compelling reason, imho, because they can’t otherwise have a child.[/b]

So is the wave of surrogacy among the rich and famous due to need or convenience? [/quote]

A desire for a baby that can’t be born otherwise does not remove the profoundly ethical issues of surrogacy. You may decide that the desire for the baby outweighs the exploitation, but that doesn’t remove the existence of the exploitation.

And if you are okay with exploitation in that circumstance, it makes no sense to object to it otherwise. [/quote]

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