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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the impulse to assume that most surrogates are poor women in desperate situations being exploited into making money. I certainly assumed that at one point. But I met two surrogates in my social circles who were college-educated, married moms who loved being pregnant and wanted to help a family. Obviously they wanted to be paid for their work, but they didn't come from the demographic background I assumed. They both said being surrogates felt completely different from being pregnant with their own children.

Research studies of U.S. surrogates also don't bear out the poor, desperate woman stereotype.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472648324004917

Half of surrogates half at least a bachelor's degree. Nearly all were employed. The vast majority lived in two-income households and had a household income above median. Only 10% of surrogates reported money being the primary motivation for becoming a surrogate.

I have a lot more concerns about the exploitation of parents placing infants for adoption than I do about the exploitation of surrogates. [/quote]

I still hate surrogates because it takes away the ONE thing that levels us all as equals- the ability to have babies and turns it into a money making scheme.  You can say that it is NEVER a level playing field for kids as clearly higher SES kids have more options given to them, but it isn’t quite the same.  There is a difference between being able to MAKE a human in your body and molding/hot housing that baby during childhood. I don’t think the ability to MAKE a human should be commodified.  I am totally pro-choice as far as abortions are concerned, but not with this.[/quote]

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