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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.