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because it's pretty obvious that this entire enterprise is extremely messed up.
Here in New York, surrogacy-for-hire is against public policy and is illegal. Contracts are void and repeat offenders can be jailed. I think that's a good thing.
Surrogacy is much worse than prostitution. Instead of buying a body for 30 minutes at a time, you are buying it for nine months, which will have a much greater impact on health, and whose emotional impact (bringing a pregnancy to term and then giving up the baby for cash) is certainly much greater than emotion-free sex.
The world is incredibly overpopulated. To go exploit impoverished women in one of the most impoverished and overpopulated countries in the world and renting a womb to bring another overprivileged, first-world baby into being is just indefensible. How about adopting an Indian baby instead? That goes for people who are not infertile, too (see the current Ask Pablo column).
