Doesn't matter, females will be obsolete with artificial wombs. Why have to deal with a 50% chance of betrayal and indefinite chattel bondage (divorce) when a simple, clean and non-crazy alternative is soon available.

Homosexuals and lesbians should have no 'options' when it comes to children. They should have nothing to do with children, who need a mother and father.

Just don't understand your problem mate! In Surrogacy, the parties are all knowledgeable volunteers, the egg donor( The biological mum) is known as is the sperm donor (The biological dad). And entered into as a contract to give a childless couple, their own biological child or children!

So where's the problem with that you heartless piece of work

No one is ever going to require you to rent your womb, donate your eggs or your sperm, nor require to fund any part of it!

So, why don't you and your bunch of self-evident control freaks, go back to picketing family planning clinics? Or ranting about about biological difference and or SSM!

Or just get a mate to shine a powerful torch from the 11th floor, so you can slide down the beam and escape to freedom?
Alan B.

Anyone who brings more children into this already-overcrowded world is a villain, regardless of their gender and sexual orientation.

«the right of a child to a mother and father is effectively glossed over»

Why would a child who pushes him/herself in have any rights?
If s/he does not like the fact that the womb-mother is different than the genetic-mother, then nothing compels them to come to this world at this time: if they fail to show restraint then the responsibility for the consequences on their life is theirs alone!

Hi Yuyutsu,

Evil embryos ! How dare they develop into foetuses and then babies, and later, make all sorts of unreasonable demands on mature adults about who their 'real' parents are ?

If a woman in, say, Cambodia or some other desperately poor country, can use her body to produce a child for someone in a rich country, for a reasonable fee, how is it the baby's concern ? They're being brought into the world, aren't they ? Shouldn't they be grateful ?

Should advances in science, in step with advances in capitalism, defer to human rights of children ? Is that what we're coming to ?

Joe

Dear Joe,

«Evil embryos ! How dare they develop into foetuses and then babies»

Embryos are no more evil than a cactus plant, they are just material objects whose nature it is to develop further.

However, if someone identifies with an embryo (at whichever stage of development), then they have no right to complain about their parents being who they are, there is no place for such victimhood mentaility.

«If a woman in, say, Cambodia or some other desperately poor country, can use her body to produce a child for someone in a rich country, for a reasonable fee, how is it the baby's concern ?»

It has nothing to do with the location of the parents/surrogate, their wealth/poverty or the fee: the world has far too many humans already.
The baby cannot have any concern, but the one who identifies with the baby cannot avoid the responsibility for coming into the world at this time.

«They're being brought into the world, aren't they ? Shouldn't they be grateful ?»

Only their bodies are brought into the world, nobody is obliged to enter the world by identifying with those bodies, nobody is forced to. Should one be grateful for their body? Sometimes, sometimes not, depending on the opportunities and how they are utilised. Having a body in the world is not necessarily and automatically a good thing.

«Should advances in science, in step with advances in capitalism, defer to human rights of children ? Is that what we're coming to ?»

Sorry, I do not understand your question. In any case, my post had nothing to do with science or capitalism.