Surrogacy should be illegal

[dmcowen674]

Am I the only one that thinks surrogacy is messed up?

Though it may help some families that cannot conceive, increasingly it is just used by rich women who do not want to undergo the pain and bodily wear that comes from giving birth.

I do not see how it is any different than paying someone for a kidney or liver. They both carry serious risks. I would not be surprised if childbirth were actually more dangerous.

The surrogates usually agree never to see the babies they give birth to again. In fact couples, like one a nurse friend of mine dealt with the other day, actually travel great distances to make sure they will be out of reach of their surrogates.

Give it a rest

Why do so many men care what women do with their bodies?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

youth in asia.

brunopuntojones, is that a valid example?

I have no problem with it.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh, I'm very aware actually. Kinda funny that all it took was someone figuring to wash their hands after each delivery could make such a big difference

I was just stating that thinking an organ transplant could somehow be safer than pregnancy was ridonkulous.

it's not nearly that simple, though--germ theory was canon long before infant mortality dropped.

It was a rather simple 7-step(?) protocol of gauging the infant's health and needs within those first 2 or 4 minutes of birth that seriously changed the game. I forget the name of the protocol (named after doctor who devised it), but I think that had the largest impact.

Then, of course, you have the issues with improving delivery, how to recognize a breached birth, when best to use a caesarean (and further, the consequences of caesarean), developing tools for aiding in birth. They actually used to use large forceps to try and grab difficult newborns and pull them out of the birth canal. They were very dangerous, and you often ended up with kids developing misshaped heads, suffering from crushed skulls (and dying, naturally).

It's a field that went through many, many advances throughout history, and none nearly as significant and game-changing as those in the last half of the 20th century.