The Ethical Issue Of Surrogacy In America

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Surrogacy is an arrangement where a surrogate mother carries and delivers a child for another individual or couple (Saxena, Mishra, & Malik, 2012). Surrogacy happens all over the world, but as it becomes more expansive to have a baby through surrogacy in countries like the United States and England, more people are turning to countries like India and Nepal to hire surrogates. However commercial surrogacy poses a wide variety of risks and there are many ethical issues that are arising because of it. The article It’s Dehumanising to be ‘an Oven’ for Someone Else’s Baby brings about a lot of interesting points regarding commercial surrogacy. In many US states, there is an unsentimental view of surrogacy where the woman is referred to as an oven. British law, on the other hand, states that the surrogate is the legal mother of the child, prior to the transfer of parental status, and allows a six week gap between birth and when the transfer of parental status occurs. …show more content…
Cost being one of the obvious ones. It is much cheaper to hire a surrogate from India than it is from the United States and other developed countries. There is also a plethora of women willing to be a surrogate, and the intended parents know that the surrogate will never reappear in their lives when the transaction is complete (Parks, 2010). As stated previously, surrogacy provides a source of income to women in countries like India. For this reason they are often pimped out by their husbands or gangs. In India and Thailand laws are coming about that would prevent same sex couples from using surrogates in their countries which would drastically change surrogacy for the women and make much more difficult for same sex couples to have a biological child, since right now surrogacy is their only option (Bindel, 2015). As you can see socioeconomic status, accessibility, and culture are all reasons that commercial surrogacy has
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