<http://thehumanfuture.blogspot.com/2008/12/rent-womb-is-where-market-logic-leads.html>Rent-a-Womb
 
Is Where Market Logic Leads

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Thomas Frank has an 
<http://s.wsj.net/article/SB122887061388693229.html>excellent piece 
over at the Wall Street Journal today. WSJ is on a two-day roll for 
me - hat tip to you! Specifically, he draws attention to 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30Surrogate-t.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=Alex%20Kuczynski&st=cse>this
 
woman's story.

Frank does an excellent job of exposing the underbelly of IVF and 
surrogacy where the rich exploit the poor. The have's and the want to 
have mores at the expense of those who don't have but need - often money.

Frank writes, "Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much 
philosophical and political dispute over the years. To summarize 
briefly, it is a class-and-gender minefield. When money is exchanged 
for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, 
or even baby-selling. It threatens to commodify not only babies, but 
women as well, putting their biological functions up for sale like so 
many Jimmy Choos. If surrogacy ever becomes a widely practiced market 
transaction, it will probably make pregnancy into just another dirty 
task for the working class, with wages driven down and wealthy 
couples hiring the work out because it's such a hassle to be pregnant."

Rock on Frank! Well said indeed.

Stars like Dennis Quaid and his wife have used a 
<http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-dennisquaidtwinsborn,0,38451.story>"gestational
 
carrier" to have their twins. I've always objected to that term - it 
sounds like some kind of aircraft!

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This is a circumstance of utter depravity and gravely contradictory 
to the clear teachings of the Church.

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