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 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
Not only am I cool with it, I'm not sure I understand why others would have a problem. Whatever two or more consenting individuals do with their own bodies is none of my business.
Edit: and now that I think about it, I'm equally puzzled about religious objections. In some cultures it's considered the duty of a man to impregnate his dead brother's wife if the brother died leaving his wife childless.
Nope, not at all.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree ... you're looking for logical answers to a feeling about emotions
I don't like anything about it. It has nothing to do with religion. Laws are changing.
http://www.creativefamilyconnections.com/us-surrogacy-law-map
I see a boatload of problems, many that are not discernable at the outset.
This is an in-depth paper written by an expert on the subject. When you are the surrogate mother, more often than not, you form a bond with the baby.
If you are a male donor? There may be problems, there may not be, but to see your child and not allow it to BE your child can open up a whole can of worms.
