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& machinery. It is not that contracted pregnancy merely shifts the health burden & risk. It is associated with pregnancy from one woman to another but in infertility it makes impossible possible. One infertile couple gets happiness of having his own child, whose sperm & ovum it is; & in potentially high risk pregnancy the net risk is lowered. Scarce resources can be made available for others needs thus benefiting society in general. One is paid for his services who is willing to give her service in turn she gets economic help or earning to fulfill her requirements of life to fill her tummy or to get comforts of life. Services given here are renting bodily parts internally. Taking physical labour is in every Job you use your brain, art, or skill or ideas or doing clerical job allotted to you. Risk is everywhere in our life.
So helping other by renting your bodily part in one view you are making someone happy. We can say as in altruism which is every religion preaches.
But what is wrong is exploitation, exploitation of poor woman by rich men. When she has to hand over the child after birth, her attachment which is natural to the child is exploited.
What is difference between prostitution & surrogacy prostitution is sex without reproduction. Which is not permissible in any religion Jaina provides celibacy vrata for this while surrogacy is reproduction without sex for needy.
Contracted pregnancy is not prostitution it is way of exploiting their own natural resources womb is used up as commodity.
Contracted pregnancy are more a real job option then selling one's blood or one's gamete are once bodily organ.
Real job option is not based on any social arrangements that preclude earning a living wage doing these things but rather on the moral judgements that they are wrong because they constitute serious, personal & bodily alienation.
Woman who work as surrogates are deprived of any expression of individuality she has no right over that child. Individuality is interchange able, they have no choice about whose sperm to harbour. It is disposition of what she produce with both mind & body which is created by her body organs. It is wrong to separate one who produces that is mother & child. Where feeling may get hurted. Woman normally expect to become especially attached to the product of this kind of a labour. Such attachment is desirable but if they are to be reared by others who equally has attachment. If maternal instinct really exists & if it does
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