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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, it's her body, so she can do what she wants.  She could also be a prostitute.

But the husband is also free to divorce her if she does something with her body that impacts him negatively.

I'm not hung up on semantics.  I get what OP is asking.
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I'm a woman.  I actually don't think that surrogacy (for money) should be legal unless prostitution is.  I view them both as the same type of business transaction -- you are essentially taking money for someone to rent out your body. [/b]

If I were a man, a husband, I would tell my wife that I'm not okay with her renting out her womb, just as I wouldn't be okay with her being a prostitute.  I'd say she's free to do as she chooses, but I wouldn't stick around.

When you marry someone, part of the agreement is including them in big decisions.  I think it's horribly wrong when women go off of the pill without telling their husbands and get "accidentally" pregnant.  Those kinds of things should be things discussed and worked out together.  No person every controls your body; you have final say.  But that doesn't mean that it's okay to sleep with other people when you are married.  [/quote]

Do you think giving blood is bad? Would you refuse blood b/c it came from someone else?? How about platelets? People are paid to donate those....?[/quote]

Giving blood or donating a kidney are different.  1)  you are GIVING something, not allowing USE of your body for a specified period of time and 2) you aren't getting paid for it and 3) blood or an organ is necessary for health and survival of the recipient; no one *needs* a baby to survive (it is purely for want).

That said, I think it all should be legal, but I don't think there is a huge difference between surrogacy and prostitution.  You are renting out your body for another person's use.

I have a close relative who is infertile.  She has accepted it, painful though it may be.  And she might adopt one day.   She won't consider using a surrogate.  And I don't blame her.

Infertility is a tragedy, but surrogacy is still renting out your body.  And I don't believe that the ends justify the means.  Is prostitution more justifiable if it is a situation where a man is married to a woman who is in a coma?  It's still prostitution.  It is still someone paying for use of another person's body.

Again, I think consenting adults should be free to do as they please, but I wouldn't blame the spouse of one of those consenting adults for disapproving and leaving, as he is free to do as well.

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