SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD AND SAME-SEX PARENTING: Elizabeth Marquardt

Anyone concerned about gender equity and children's rights should be disturbed when increasing numbers of wealthy men hire working class women for a pittance (given the risks involved) to bear children who will grow up motherless. Nowadays, many of these wealthy couples –- gay and straight -– also bring an egg donor into the picture, typically a college student with high SAT scores. Apparently the working class surrogate is good enough to carry the baby but not good enough to contribute her genes to it.

Those who support this industry insist that biology doesn't matter, that all kids need is a loving family. Yet apparently biology matters very much to the couples who go to extreme lengths to conceive a child genetically related to one of them.

We should seriously question an industry that exploits young and poor women and very intentionally creates children who will never have the chance to grow up with their own mother and father.

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posted by Eve at 10:39 PM VOTE

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