When I was in college all the textbooks used to suggest (if not outright state) that education, industrialization and technological advancement were the best cures for overpopulati... moreWhen I was in college all the textbooks used to suggest (if not outright state) that education, industrialization and technological advancement were the best cures for overpopulation. They may have had a point:
Population Boom Goes Bust
About That Overpopulation Problem
I know some people are against surrogacy for religious reasons, and that's all well and good. What I'm curious to know is if the folks who are normally ok with it see it as being b... moreI know some people are against surrogacy for religious reasons, and that's all well and good. What I'm curious to know is if the folks who are normally ok with it see it as being bad when the gestational surrogate is related to the biological parent. To be clear, a gestational surrogate has no biological relationship to the child. She only carries it. The egg comes from another woman.
I hear of this often with sisters carrying each other's babies and such and nobody ever says anything, but this news article makes a huge deal of a woman carrying her brother's baby, conceved via IVF with a donor's egg. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-54972/Surrogacy-scandal-thats-shocked-world.html less