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Surrogate Motherhood
Speaker: Annie Hsu
Introduction
According to the department of health in Taiwan, there are 15% of couples who are suffering from infertility.
Resolutions Americans - adoption Taiwan- assisted productive technology
Definition of Surrogate Motherhood
A woman who agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth to a child for others to raise.
Allow the infertile couples having the children who have genetic linkage with them.
Conflicts of Surrogate Motherhood
The idea of surrogate motherhood is morally wrong
Violate the ethic
Degrade the role and value of mother
Put the unborn children into the dangerous circumstance.
Ethic Perspective
The ruined family moral principles.
What if the surrogate mother was one of the relativities of infertile couples?
Vatican has issued a statement rejecting surrogate motherhood.
A bizarre family tree
Mary Harry sister
Mother or aunt?
Role and Value of Mother
Original definition of Mother
Natural or social female parent of an offspring.
Provides ovum, gestate children and fulfill the primary role in the raising of children.
Role of Mother
New definition of Mother
Genetic mother- provides the ovum
Gestational mother - carries the pregnancy
Social mother - brings up the child
Role of Mother- Evidence
The Department of Sociology of National Taiwan University points out –
It’ll be hard to find a woman who could fulfill the complete process and duty as a mother.
Mother may be defined as an incomplete individual.
Medical science might become the creator of human beings.
Value of Mother
Value of mother in general
Priceless, invaluable, no mother price list
Value of Surrogate Motherhood
In U.S.A - between US$10,000 and $20,000 In Taiwan - around NT$ one million dollars.
The Uncertain environment for children
Surrogate motherhood lacks of the consideration of the children. The safety and welfare of the children? The risk of abandoning the children? The child has serious disabilities?
who will be responsible for these
uncertainness?
Conclusion
The ethical standard will be disordered.
The changing definition and commercialization of motherhood opposes to the holy meaning and role of mother.
it is unethical to gestate the child through the surrogate mother when we are not fully prepared.