Surrogacy: Surrogate Mothers

People travel to Thailand not just for enjoying their vacations, but also for realizing the dream of having a baby. India, Thailand and California in the United States are the most popular destinations for cross- border reproductive care or fertility tourism (Mckelvey, David, Shenfield, & Jauniaux, 2009). People usually go abroad for commercial surrogacy. No matter what their marital status or sexual orientation are (Armour, 2012), they could seek help from surrogacy agencies in those places. Surrogacy is an arrangement that a surrogate mother carries an embryo and subsequent birthing of a baby for an intended couple who is unable to conceive babies by themselves. It seems that surrogacy is a solution to create a new member in a family. Although the birth of a baby is believed as a blessed event for families, it could become the beginning of nightmare to children at the same time. Surrogacy has been a thorny issue. It should not be encouraged.

There are two forms of surrogacy. In traditional, surrogate mother would use her own egg along with intended father’s sperm. The process is accomplished through artificial insemination. Therefore, surrogate mother is the genetic mother of the resulting baby. In gestational, only being the carrier of …show more content…
The difficulty faced by Australian is the inconsistent law in regulating surrogacy. It is regulated on a State- by- State basis. In New South Wales and Queensland, people who enter into commercial surrogacy in a foreign country can be found guilty of offence (Regulating Surrogacy in Australia, 2015). That means the babies born in other countries through surrogate mother will not be granted the nationality and the custody of the children. In the ACT, only heterosexual married couples are allowed. The different legal position of each jurisdiction could make people confused about the validity of