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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Your take is essentially a religious one. Not everyone can make babies on their own. That’s why we have assistive reproductive technology. These technologies are expensive and many, if not most, people can’t access them. Surrogacy is one ART. You’ve decided to draw the line based on the baby growing in another woman’s body. That’s fine for you, but it’s not a line based on logic, and your purported logic doesn’t make any sense.[/quote]

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