surrogates are only a vehicle
there is no right except those that protect the baby they carry,,,
at least, that's as I think it should be if someone signs on to be only a vessel,, the law should allow them to be only a vessel,,
I see some validity in this view point: surrogate motors as a vessel.
In fact, this post coincided with a recent article in the n_papers here about an ongoing industry where Indian women were volunteering as surrogate mothers for overseas couples.
The news mentioned the government banning "foreign implants". I suppose it had something to do with our country's resources being drained; haha.
Branching off to a scientific view; if a test tube baby can grow in a human womb why not in an animal womb, like say some orangutan's? The reason for this inquiry is my growing belief that if man is to colonize planets like Mars he needs to acquire a skin with furs to resist radiation effects. (w.r.t a debate on the value of skin in the post: NASA Makes Major Mars Discovery );
The human embryo in the orangutan womb, if he/she survives to birth, could very well acquire superhuman powers; some details if any however unlikely genetically; like tail growth could be amputated. What I mean is if a womb is a vessel; we do need to consider all potential nature offers.
Ah, the many inferences of Law: There's a possibility that governments may wrangle over kids born of rental-wombs. If we go by the rule that any child born in the US territory automatically becomes a US citizen then we must allow this rule to extend to kids born off surogate moms in Indian territory.
This would not apply if the kids were born off a lab or an orangutan's womb. It would then be deemed as similar to a contract between companies and shipyards for building 'vessels'.
On an aside: Orangutan mom's don't feel anything when they lose a child year after year till her womb can no longer be milked to bear any more human kids. They call it karma.
Which finally leads me to think that Indian surrogate mothers, mired in poverty as they are; are this new age O_moms. Maybe they harbor a secret solace that their kid is in a better home. (just thinking aloud in tangents).
Which finally leads me to conclude that giving equal rights to women; how-so-ever revered for their motherhood (which by this post means zilch) is not only against nature's law of male-female equation but the root of all disaster in our modern society.
Thanks for wakening me up.
Yeah, i'm going to relish those 'yo-mom' jokes after all.