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whether suppressing feeling is right? It is wrong because even five months fetus can hear sound, recognise voice of mother, bonding with baby is natural. Our habits are biologically determined. Our culture is permeated with pro-natalist natural so tendency to such attachment is desirable and natural.
Special rights have special responsibilities. Payment done in contracted pregnancy is Controvercy is commercial term, charge means that it is baby-selling. Which is ethically or even socially or religiously wrong.
Woman are merely making available their biological services. Woman are paid little or nothing if they handed over dead or unhealthy child. Normal child bearing provides no guarantee of live healthy child. Women are selling their services & not babies. In factory if product is defective it is not sellable like wise if in gestating the baby, baby has any problem or defect in product she may not be paid for her services. So chances of exploitation is there even after taking labour of pregnancy.
Another issue is respect, or reputation of surrogating mother. In eye of society such services are counted as low or seen as prostitution.
Again it is child-selling then children are not property or commodity to be sell. It is difficult to create baby & give away. We own sperm & ova yet we don't own fully developed child, is separate individual. If we are trafficking in person is wrong, slavery is wrong, baby-selling is wrong.
Surrogating mother deprives from baby to whose sperm or ova is owned, both are not seller or purchaser to treat the child as commodity so selling babies is not right description.
She is giving up her parental right to have relationship with the child. It would be egoistic & immoral to sell friendly relationship with an organism. Your body has created but with which you don't yet have a unique social bond is great deal. If Bond increases after creation. You don't give up the created baby is also wrong as it is breach of contract. If such acts are motivated by altruism & compensation for services rendered is not accepted then it is morally or religiously, can be said to be helping the needy.. Conclusion -
Woman cant be involved in contracted pregnancy without harming is difficult without lingering concern.
If one conceives in order to provide parents who are desperately wanted child without any compulsion or greed is actually act of compassion towards needy parents. It is sacrifice of love of new born
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