Paid Surrogacy

100711 (FRI)

Jeong Min Park

Mom, Don’t Say You Are a Prostitute

Babies till 5 years old remember the times when they were in their mom’s vagina. They remember the feeling, the sound, and even their parents’ voice they have heard inside. But imagine, when they come out it’s not the same parent that the baby is remembering. As he is growing up, he learns it is because his biological parents have used a paid surrogate mother to bear him! Since paid surrogacy harms people in a lot of ways, it should be strongly restricted in all states regardless of any motives.

As pornography and prostitution steadily get more and more popular, female trafficking is being prevalent. In a sense of “buying human body” with money, how is paid surrogacy different from prostitution? No one has right to trade humans. Surrogate moms are basically selling their body for ten months to bear a baby inside. After this harsh process, they are not to ask for any medical aids even if their body has been harmed, because this whole process is illegal in most countries. Paid surrogacy is not just wrong in a sense of purchasing human body, but also wrong regarding all the possible dangers toward surrogate mom’s body.

Baby is an extremely special outcome that should only be resulted from true love between the mother and the father. But nowadays, more and more people have started to wickedly use the paid surrogate system even if they are fertile enough to bear infants. They are just being lazy and trying to use the power of money in order to lessen their basic duty. If this sort of process goes on and on, eventually less than 5% of married female would want to be pregnant themselves and go through the hardships. Other than that, they would use paid surrogate moms to do the job for them. Reproduction is the most basic goal of human being. What paid surrogacy does is only breaking the basic rules of human nature.

Furthermore, it is highly possible to affect the babies who are born with paid surrogacy, of course in a very bad way. As a child, the fact that “your mom you have now is not the one whom you used to be inside, but there is another one” is harsh enough to hurt to deep inside. Considering this, finding out that your surrogate mom was even paid for bearing you would beat you down. I’m not saying this would happen in every single family, but there is a high probability of losing your identity as yourself.

Word in word, paid surrogacy is harmful in uncountable senses, especially when considering the moral aspects of it. Paid surrogacy is now illegal in almost all countries, but there are numerous black markets prevailing. Now it is time to put additional regulations and to reinforce the penalty on people who illegally “trade” human bodies. It is time to face the reality. It is not just others’ business anymore. You could be the next one, who knows.