When Your Grandma is Also Your Mom

February 25, 2011

The first question we must ask is this: is surrogate motherhood, in general, ethically acceptable? For a variety of reasons I believe the answer is no: surrogate motherhood breaches children’s human rights regarding their coming-into-being; it confuses family roles and relationships; it exploits poor women; and its international commercialization has opened us up to dehumanizing scenarios, such as FedEx-ing frozen embryos to “warehouses” of surrogate mothers in developing countries. (The Mark)