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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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.

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

Gay men can adopt.

I know two gay couples who fostered to adopt. [/quote]

Adoption is wonderful, and people who care for orphaned children are heroes.

Still, that's different from having a baby with genetic inheritance, which is a natural human need.

Gay men couples are no more obligated to adopt than straight couples are. [/quote]

Other than celebrities, straight couples often go for adoption because they can't have their own. Its not a choice.

Gay couples make a choice that they can't have children in a way nature intended. Adoption is probably more acceptable for them.[/quote]

It’s MUCH harder for gay couples to adopt. A recent Supreme Court decision for example, upheld a state-funded adoption agency in Pennsylvania’s rights to refuse to consider gay couples (due to freedom of religion.)

It is my understanding that most gay couples do adopt and they do it internationally.  Most gestational carriers help married straight couples, who cannot conceive.  However, for some reason this seems to bother you as well.

Regarding straight married couples, the idea that all straight couples who cannot conceive should simply adopt is absurd. The waiting list are extreme.  You have no idea what they may be going through.

Perhaps most importantly, who made you some sort of Judge?  My guess is that you’re not a very kind person from what you’re saying. [/quote]

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