Story ends with a weeping mother --- the surrogates are, after all, the mothers --- being chided for getting "a little too attached" and the gay men walking off with twin baby girls.
How can the cheerful, intentional ripping apart of human bonds be described as anything but inhuman? How can this commerce in buying and selling human persons be described as anything but "trafficking"?
Imagine the life of that poor woman whose body was prostituted by her husband to produce 2 baby girls to gratify the wishes of 2 homosexual men who “showed her the contract” and then pranced out of the hospital
I saw a movie some years ago called “The Handmaid’s Tale”... reminds me somewhat of this very situation. Plot is in the future, women are either sterile or fertile. The sterile women are the “upper class”. The fertile women are used solely as “breeders” for the sterile women. Some of the breeder women go mad, commit suicide or simply shut down. Powerful movie that uses a futuristic twist on surrogate mothers.
"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--Thomas Jefferson
It sounds like a pretty great deal for the women of India. There are long waiting lists for Indian woman who want to be in the surrogacy program. I saw this on Oprah’s show in 2007. The women must stay in a facility the entire pregnancy and be monitored. Then they set up an account in just the woman’s name. They protect the money to make sure their low life husbands dont squander it. If she wants a house, they hold the money until that time. The Indian woman bought a really nice house and was living much better than before.
From the article, it sounds like the husband knew the embryos were not his / his wife’s, but the wife did not. She thought she carried her own children, while her husband rented her out. After giving birth to twin girls, she’s told they are not hers, now give them up.
