Surrogacy: Wombs For Rent

Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent
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Institution
The term surrogacy could be elucidated as a practice where one woman agrees to pregnancy via artificial implantation or artificial insemination and carries the pregnancy for a woman who cannot conceive or deliver (Boleyn-Fitzgerald, 2010). This topic is eliciting a lot of debate from Christians, feminists, atheists and ethicists. Simply put, the aforementioned groups have united to fight against surrogacy by citing that it violates human rights in addition to exploiting women. This paper will argue that surrogacy is unacceptable because it is comparable to prostitution.
To begin with, it is acknowledged that surrogacy allows women to rent their bodies in an intimate way. The fact that surrogacy allows women to carry fetus for a different person and receive payment for the service is obnoxious. Therefore, it could be deduced that and the result for women who rent their bodies is money not childre...