Surrogate Motherhood

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.