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 is morally wrong. However, surrogacy is a reliable way for an infertile couple and nontraditional families to have a baby. Surrogacy should be pursued as a choice and hope for having a baby for everyone. In addition, legalizing
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