Human Rights To Surrogacy

Rights of Humans to Surrogacy

Children are priceless and the best gift to everyone. Without children, a family seems to be incomplete and even not a family. However, not everyone has an opportunity to have a baby of their own and experience what it feels like to be parents. For a long time couples, who could not bear a child, had a choice of adopting a baby or just doing without any baby. Nevertheless, with improvements and advances in science, medicine, and technology, today dreams of couples who are seeking to have a baby can come true via third party assisted reproduction such as surrogacy. Nowadays surrogacy becomes a controversial issue and leads to many disagreements among people. Some people think surrogacy undermines human dignity and

When surrogates and intended couples enter surrogacy arrangements they should have responsibilities and know all risks of surrogacy, in order to prevent cases in which there will form disagreements between them. As Söderström-Anttila et al. denote there are some rare cases, in which surrogate denies to relinquish baby or intended parents are not willing to welcome a child (p273). But it would not happen if they had obligations, which are regulated by law. According to Söderström-Anttila et al. “before entering surrogacy arrangement counselling is extremely important and should be paid more attention to by parties” (p273). During such counselling, they should be informed about their rights and responsibilities, whether surrogate can keep the child, or can intended parents control her body. Therefore, to prevent all unpleasant situations surrogacy should be better

People claim that only intended couples benefit from surrogacy, while surrogate mother undergoes risk during pregnancy and will suffer regret after relinquishment of the baby. As Teman indicates, some researchers suggest that there is bonding between carrier mother and the baby, and in the future surrogates will have signs of traumatic loss (p1108).Although, there are also worries about risks, which surrogates take during pregnancy. Söderström-Anttila et al. say that there are concerns about the possibility of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and common obstetric complications (p262). However, according to other research conducted recently, arguments above lack evidence and contradicts to the outcomes. Söderström-Anttila et al. exemplify that from report including 333 surrogacy treatments in Canada,” the pregnancy miscarriage and delivery rate of the surrogate were not different from natural pregnancies” (p262). During pregnancy, there is always risks which woman take, and it does not differ for surrogates. Considering about the psychological state of a surrogate, Teman implies that while surrogates had some depression after giving away baby, it was as result of losing their roles and couples attention, rather than relinquishment of the baby (p1109). Therefore, surrogates have no bonding with a baby and the probability that they will suffer is low. On the contrary, many surrogates are satisfied with being