Saturday, May 21, 2011

Female Body Rental, Part Two

Right right right.

Motherhood is noble.The desire to give a child a good household is...noble. Having Children is a right. Yeah yeah yeah.

But let's backtrack here: how is this right constructed?

1a. It is the right to have a child with your own DNA
1a. It is the right to have a child from your CLASS, of your race.
2 (for couples that can concieve) It is the right to avoid the burden of pregnancy.

For 1a, there is always the option of adoption. There are LOTS of options...and yes, knowing people who have adopted, it's a round-about process with long wait times.

For 2, it's especially problematic.

Supporters of surrogacy for group 1 support (my assumption is largely middle and upperclass women)'s desires to posess a child of their own DNA makeup.
Supporters of surrogacy for group 2 support middle and upperclass women's desires to posses a child of their own DNA makeup and to outsource the physical burden of creating that child to another woman.

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