According to Elaine Landau in the book " Surrogate Mothers" "A Surrogate mother is a woman who conceives, carries, and gives birth to a baby for another person." (Landau 9). 750 babies have been born through surrogacy at the center for surrogate mothers ("Frequently asked questions" 1). Many people do not know a lot about surrogate motherhood, so hey are afraid of it. Many women are insecure and they fear titles on the National Inquirer such as " Father falls in love with surrogate mother!" (Frank 140). Although many women fear the idea of surrogacy, more woman are contemplating the issue because of the increased knowledge of the process and the additional support given during the process of being a surrogate mother.
The increased knowledge of the process sometimes does not put women who know about the "Baby M" case minds" at ease. Basically, an infertile couple, the Sterns, went to a lawyer and said they would like to have a baby through a Surrogate mother. The lawyer located a lady who wanted to be a surrogate mother, Mary-Beth Whitehead. The Sterns, Mar-Beth Whitehead, and her husband, Richard Whitehead, met for lunch and a contract was drawn up. Mary-Beth Whitehead after many tries finally conceived and carried the baby. Over the time of her pregnancy, she felt like the Sterns were truing to control her life because of the fact that the Sterns would tell her what they thought was best for her during the pregnancy. Nine months later a baby girl was born and it was then that the Whiteheads realized they made a huge mistake. Mr. And Mrs. Whitehead told the Sterns they did not want to give up the baby and they were going to keep her. The Sterns did not like that and took the Whiteheads to court. After many emotional months of court trials and tribulations "Baby M" was awarded to the Sterns and all of Mrs. Whiteheads parental rights were taken away. Mrs. Whitehead later appealed the lower courts rulings and the higher court still gave custody of the baby to the Sterns and gave Mrs.
She is called genetic surrogate mother. 2. ... The surrogate mother can be treated as not the mother of the baby. ... Surrogacy Ruin the surrogate mother dignity and right Society may also place a stigma on the surrogate mother for "Selling babies." ... Even though the surrogate mother has been paid for money. ... The genetic surrogate mother provides egg and womb. ...
Martha Field, in her work, Surrogate Motherhood, attempts to address that issue and formulate what she believes is the best resolution in conflicts between surrogate mothers and adoptive parents. ... One of the most famous situations in which a surrogate mother wanted to keep the baby was the Baby M case. In 1987, William and Elizabeth Stern contracted Mary Beth Whitehead to act as a surrogate mother. ... With this emergence, surrogacy became a regulated process by which the couple writes out what is expected of the surrogate mother, such as turning over the child when born, and sets a pr...
Reaction to Surrogate Motherhood Surrogate motherhood is just another way that humankind discovered to play god. ... The mother has the right to choose whatever she pleases. ... The family and the surrogate mother are vigorously tested in all sorts of things. ... What if the surrogate mother decides on giving up and cannot take the responsibility of another family's child? ... I think that if the families get along they should keep in touch so that the child knows and can see its surrogate mother later in its life. ...
The premise in the argument is: (1) the surrogate continues to play an active role in the child's life as a 'second mother'. ... First, the authors must assume that the surrogate will bond with the child forever by claiming that the surrogate will not be alienated if she plays an active role in the child's life as a second mother. ... It is possible for the surrogate to be alienated when the commissioning parents think the presence of a second mother makes others look at them in a strange way that they or the child cannot bear. ... It is dehumanising because the surrogate ...
Surrogate motherhood offers an alternative that allows couples to parent children who are still genetically connected to one or both parents. ... In reality, the infertile couple is paying the surrogate mother to allow a place for their baby to grow. ... Surrogate mothers give infertile couples the chance to make their dreams come true. ... Surrogate motherhood provokes controversy, anger, hostility and sometimes violence among humans, separates the act of having a child from a warm and loving family environment, and it is technically baby selling. ...
Although no national policy regarding surrogate mothers exists in America, there should be a general rule: surrogacy shall not be tolerable. ... Gestational surrogacy is when the egg of the intended mother and the sperm of the intended father are transplanted into the surrogate mother's uterus. ... Infertility, unfortunately, occurs to both social classes and it can be unfair to the lower class if they can not afford a surrogate mother. ... An alternative to hiring a surrogate mother stands adoption. ... The technologies of surrogate mothering have come a long way since the times of Abr...
Host Surrogacy is where a surrogate would carry the infertile couples genetic child. ... If the parents and the surrogate mother agree to do the procedure, no one is being forced to do anything that he/she doesn't want to do. ... Many people wonder what would possess a woman to want to be a surrogate mother. ... "Most surrogates derive a great deal of satisfaction from knowing that they have changed peoples' lives for the good, making what would otherwise be an impossible dream come true" (Surrogates UK). In most cases, the surrogate mother is a relative or close friend of the cou...
On the other side, surrogacy is expensive because it involves costs such as medical fees, agency fees, fees paid to the surrogate mother, legal fees and adoption fees. ... In addition to that, the surrogate mother may feel jealous that the kid that she borne her or pain is being parented by someone else. ...
One substitution is having a surrogate mother in the creation of a child, however, this causes some controversy with the process of how it is performed and accomplished. ... The first was a book entitled: "Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Fathers," by Helena Ragone, which centers on the motivations for all those involved. ... The language style of ethos, ethics, was present when the author addressed the question of the surrogate mother's motivation. ... "The symbol of the pure surrogate who creates a child for love was pitted against the symbol of the wic...