Adoption is the Option: Why adoption is better than surrogacy
The number of children in US foster care during 2014 was a staggering 415,129 (Number of Children in Foster Care in The United States from 2009 to 2014.) That number is a bit alarming, it also doesn’t include the number of children who are in or will be put up for adoption. In today’s society we’ve come up with more scientific ways for couples to begin families. Many couples deal with fertility issues and aren’t capable of conceiving on their own. One way couples are choosing to deal with that issue is by hiring a surrogate mother. Surrogacy is when a couple retrieves their own egg and sperm or ones that are donated and has them injected into another female that will carry the fetus …show more content…
There will always be children who are in need of homes and loving guardians. Foster homes and adoption agencies have an abundance of children, and the sad news is that they’re not going to be empty anytime soon. Surrogacy though, requires searching multiple profiles of surrogate mothers, retrieving of eggs and sperm, and can come with medical complications. One case stated in the article Womb Wars, talks about a woman named Marlise Muñoz, who was 14 weeks pregnant and completely brain dead, the state of Texas wanted to keep her body alive for 6 more months to save the baby (Williams 10). Marlise wasn’t a surrogate mother, but imagine if she was, the couple who hired her as surrogate mother could request that her body be kept alive in order for their baby to be born, due to a contract (Williams 10). The idea that a woman’s body can basically be used as container due to a contract is sickening. Both adoption and surrogacy require wait times, contracts, and struggle, but adoption is still a simpler, safer, and more moral way to …show more content…
The world is already over populated, why bring a child into this world through unnatural causes when children out there are waiting each day to be adopted into loving families. Children who grow up in foster homes often live without things a normal middle class child would receive. With surrogacy you don’t get to offer an under privileged child a better life, instead you’re creating one using test tubes. There’s no doubt that couples who struggle with infertility have a weight on their shoulders; deciding on how to deal with that weight isn’t easy. New treatments and fertility drugs seem to enter the medical market on a yearly basis, but couples seem to forget about one specific way to tackle their issue. That issue can be tackled by choosing to adopt in order to start a family. By choosing to adopt couples are saving money, saving time spent waiting, and ultimately saving a life of a
The number of children in US foster care during 2014 was a staggering 415,129 (Number of Children in Foster Care in The United States from 2009 to 2014.) That number is a bit alarming, it also doesn’t include the number of children who are in or will be put up for adoption. In today’s society we’ve come up with more scientific ways for couples to begin families. Many couples deal with fertility issues and aren’t capable of conceiving on their own. One way couples are choosing to deal with that issue is by hiring a surrogate mother. Surrogacy is when a couple retrieves their own egg and sperm or ones that are donated and has them injected into another female that will carry the fetus …show more content…
There will always be children who are in need of homes and loving guardians. Foster homes and adoption agencies have an abundance of children, and the sad news is that they’re not going to be empty anytime soon. Surrogacy though, requires searching multiple profiles of surrogate mothers, retrieving of eggs and sperm, and can come with medical complications. One case stated in the article Womb Wars, talks about a woman named Marlise Muñoz, who was 14 weeks pregnant and completely brain dead, the state of Texas wanted to keep her body alive for 6 more months to save the baby (Williams 10). Marlise wasn’t a surrogate mother, but imagine if she was, the couple who hired her as surrogate mother could request that her body be kept alive in order for their baby to be born, due to a contract (Williams 10). The idea that a woman’s body can basically be used as container due to a contract is sickening. Both adoption and surrogacy require wait times, contracts, and struggle, but adoption is still a simpler, safer, and more moral way to …show more content…
The world is already over populated, why bring a child into this world through unnatural causes when children out there are waiting each day to be adopted into loving families. Children who grow up in foster homes often live without things a normal middle class child would receive. With surrogacy you don’t get to offer an under privileged child a better life, instead you’re creating one using test tubes. There’s no doubt that couples who struggle with infertility have a weight on their shoulders; deciding on how to deal with that weight isn’t easy. New treatments and fertility drugs seem to enter the medical market on a yearly basis, but couples seem to forget about one specific way to tackle their issue. That issue can be tackled by choosing to adopt in order to start a family. By choosing to adopt couples are saving money, saving time spent waiting, and ultimately saving a life of a