[Morgana]

So my uterus is now an easy-bake oven? Wow this has really lowered women's status more than any conservative could do.

[scottjewell]

I have always thought that this would be one of the unintended consequences of same sex marriage.

The fact that homosexual couples must always and everywhere turn to reproductive technology and straight people to bring new life into the world is a heavy indictment against them, and a strong argument against same sex marriage.

This slippery slope cannot be allowed to come into being.

I read some liberal journalist who tried to argue that ‘NO, gay marriage will not lead to more renting wombs and turning to sperm donors. Most of us don’t have kids.’ Nit wit, you don’t have kids because up til now you didn’t have same sex marriage or access to this Frankenstein, dehumanizing technology.

No, NO, 3x no to all of this.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

This is a new extension to the sex trafficking.

[freekitty]

I don’t know who this lawyer is stated this; but the mother does have rights.

[Travis McGee]

The “new normal” America applauded when the pervert pedophile Michael Jackson rented or purchased sperm, eggs and wombs to commercially breed a pair of caucasian babies, which were then handed over to him as “his children.”

I keep looking up for the big asteroid. It’s not nice to fool mother nature, or spit in God’s eye.

[Tax-chick]

Just when you think the devaluation of mothers couldn’t get more ... searching for an adjective ... objectifying, there’s this.

But on the plus side, homosexual men don’t expect a woman to be an “E-Z Bake Oven” and a sex object at the same time.

[two134711]

For so many years pro abort women vehemently declared they were not "baby factories." Their bodies were theirs and theirs alone, and no one had a right to their wombs but themselves. My, my, how money turns true-believers into ideological whores.

Renting a womb for a "needy" couple sounds so noble to them, but in reality it's slavery. Moreover, a child born of a "surrogate" mother in not like a cake baked in an oven. That woman who bears the child is genetically related to the child she bears. She is not just a surrogate; in the biological sense, she is the child's mother. Even if the ova comes from a donor, that child actually has 3 genetic parents: a male "father" who gave the sperm and his chromatids, a female "father" who gave the ova and her half of the chromosome set, and the actual biological mother--the one who carries and bears the child--as she gave her mitochondrial DNA that is found in the baby as well. (Check studies on cloning animals...the clones are genetic identicals of the original, except for the mtDNA which always comes from the "carrier").

Besides, the pregnancy is more than just treating the womb like a Chia Pet: woman's body completely changes hormonally to support another life, what she eats nourishes the child, her body loses iron and calcium and other necessary vitamins and minerals which she has to replenish. If she's a vegan, she'll have to take numerous vitamins or eat animal-based fats & proteins for the child to thrive.

On the other hand, when young women donate their eggs to help a sterile couple or aid "Scientific research," they are risking their own fertility in that obtaining eggs from the ovaries is not an easy medical procedure. Some women may experience ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, or OHS, which leads to internal bleeding, kidney failure or even death. Also a few of these young women have to take fertility medication which may lead to cancer.

[two134711]

FYI, I admit when I was a dumb 18 year old at NYU, piss-poor and living with many students who came from multi-millionaire families, I actually contemplated this. I admit I was dumb and naive!

The ads I read (In the Village Voice, no less)said they paid medical fees and $4000 up front. They were deceptive and catered to bleeding hearts like myself at the time; they claimed that a sad, needy family would be be so thankful for such generosity. To a poor kid working 20 hours a week for minimum wage (it was $5.00/hour back then) and taking 18 credits of classes, this sounded like such a wonderful option. Of course NO mention was made of the consequences. Just a few doctors visits, and that was it.

Thanks to Providence, (can you believe it?) I won about $1000 on a lottery scratcher, and besides my lupus would have made me a poor candidate. I only admit this because I was a book-smart kid, but street-wise and world-wise I knew nothing.

Conservatives have to be careful and voice their concerns about this by not berating the unGodliness of this (which is true), but the health risks young women face.

So many uniformed, misguided POOR girls are being conned into selling their bodies for what they believe to be a noble cause. Surrogacy, egg donation, all this should be illegal as it treats human life as a commodity and is slavery.But some IVF/surrogacy supporter will sure be on their way to tell me how evil and unsympathetic I am to childless couples. One word to all those: adoption.