Monday, January 26, 2009

On Paid Surrogacy (and why I should go blonde)

Is being able to have a surrogate mother for your child a legal right? This is an issue concerning the rights of what one is allowed to do with their body. Our bodies, being the only thing we possess from the beginning of our lives to the end, is the most exclusive property one shall ever own in their life. Since it is our legal right to do whatever we want with our property by consent(so long as we abide to the natural law of self preservation in order to protect us from hurting ourselves), anything we wish to do with our own sack of meat is for ourselves and only ourselves to decide. If I want to bleach my hair and get my ears pierced, it is for no one else to decide but myself (although there has been a great objection to me going blond on my floor). Relating all this back to paid surrogacy, the concept is pretty much the same - anything we wish to do to our own bodies is a right that we deserve. To have any choice in how we treat our bodies (again, within natural reason of self preservation) denied is just the same as having a government evacuate an area so they can put satellites in. People may not be comfortable with this view of the human body; something that may not be honored as a "holy temple", but our exclusive rights to our bodies is still something that must be respected. So long as the consent of both the parents and the mother agrees with the protocols of a surrogate conception, there is no issue with having a child born this way.

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