[afraidfortherepublic]

If they need eggs, they have to rely on clinics that have found young women who will allow themselves to be hyper-ovulated where they are shot with huge doses of hormones in order for their bodies to produce 10-15 eggs and then have them “harvested.” It is a painful and potentially dangerous process with long-lasting consequences for the donor.

Filmmaker Jennifer Lahl calls this “Eggploitation” which is the title of one of her documentaries showing how the young women are found and induced into the procedure. You will see ads for such women in the pages of Ivy League student newspapers. Ivy League eggs are considered among the best. Even the left calls such things the “commodification of human life.”

And then there are the rented wombs. A woman may be too old to carry a child, or the couple may be two men. A womb must be found and rented for 9 months. There are websites dedicated to matching young women with wombs to let and those who need them.

[5th MEB]

The whole thing is a sick practice, brought to you by the people who are always saying it’s “MY RIGHT”, GIMMEE!
What ever happened to old fashioned ADOPTMENT.

[MacMattico]

In other words, because she's getting divorced she would probably be also getting an abortion right now. Didn't she just get fired from The View? I don't watch it but thought I read that. Was The View even appalled? There has to be paperwork somewhere that she signed claiming the baby, otherwise what protected her from the surrogate keeping the baby when Shepherd wanted it? She seems like a real piece of work. I'd adopt the poor baby if it were possible, I have an adopted daughter and she is family just as my bio daughter is.

Here is a problem with “prochoice” surrogacy— she thinks it's not a baby yet and therefore can just toss it aside. But she can't control some one else's uterus so she's p***ed. I hope the surrogate bonds with the baby, raises it, and takes Shepherd to the bank!Then again, maybe a nice home away from all involved would be preferable. How much she's trying to buy off the surrogate to get an abortion?

[Lorianne]

Sick, sick, sick from start to finish.
These people are despicable.

[johniegrad]

It’s not very complicated, really. Once you divorce the sexual act from its procreative purpose, then anything goes. Anything. And the arguments simply become more absurd the further the technology progresses. Just because something CAN be done, doesn’t mean it SHOULD be done.

[A_perfect_lady]

So she ordered it like a pizza and now that it’s about to be delivered, she doesn’t want it anymore, eh? Well. Nice. I suppose the ex-husband will get it. Presumably he’s the sperm donor.

[jocon307]

First of all having a husband named Lamar Sally seems like a bad idea.

But, more importantly, what’s going to happen to this baby?

I see the woman in question is black (I recognized her when I saw her picture, although I did not recognize her from just her name). Is the child black? Is this poor innocent baby, who as the saying goes, didn’t ask to be born, going to be at a disadvantage?

I suppose there’s some legal contract somewhere, I wonder what that provides for.

Would this child have standing to sue this woman and her husband for abandonment? Suppose he or she grows up poor, whereas they could have been rich?

Is Mr. Sally the bio dad of the child? Has he been asked about what his intentions are?

So many questions and who would care, but the fate of a child hangs in the balance. Too bad his erstwhile wanna be mom doesn’t give a rip about it.

[jtal]

What a POS. In more civilized times she would be shunned and her career would be over.

Instead Obama will probably award her the presidential medal of freedom for refusing to be punished with a baby.

[MoochPooch]

Once you take God out of the picture, the act of creation becomes a mere technical exercise. The Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, a great Jewish leader, predicted the commodification of embryos. (He himself was childless, so he was not at all insensitive to the plight of infertile couples.)