[PLMerite]

I don’t think it’s as distasteful as when rich celebrities go shopping for “fashion accessory” children in the third world. I also don’t think using a surrogate to carry an IVF embryo of one or both of the “adoptive” parents is bad, either. This woman wouldn’t exist otherwise, so without knowing all the sordid details and thought processes of the parents myself, IMHO she should just STFU and enjoy being alive. It’s an opportunity about a million kids a year don’t get.

[Mrs. Don-o]

There are dozens of ways that a pregnancy might come about, that we can frankly call wrongful, without in the least implying that the resulting born child shouldn't exist. Nobody is wishing a child away.

Yet consider that children get conceived by:

• drunken one-nighter
• forcible rape
• seduction
• sexual assault on a minor
• incest
• drugged intercourse
• stupid move by horny teenagers
• selfish adulterous fling
• prostitution
• baby-selling scheme

and surrogacy is one of those wrongful acts. It is akin to prostitution ---gestational surrogate selling (leasing) her body --- and baby-selling, which is a form of human trafficking. We can deplore this, even want to legally curb it, without slighting the human dignity of the child in the least.

In fact, it's because of our sense of the dignity of a child's life, that we don't want reproductive prostitution and baby-selling to be accepted in our society.