Word: adoptionism
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What is being bought and sold here is the surrogate mother's time and effort, not the baby's. The chief difference between adoption and surrogacy is that in the latter case, the child's mother would not have become pregnant on her own, but rather was specially commissioned by...
Proponents of the law contend that babies should not be exchanged for money as if they were objects or slaves. Surrogacy should be treated like adoption, they say. In other words, a woman is still allowed to bear a child for the express purpose of giving it up to another...
Paying money for a baby is not even the issue, because when a couple adopts a baby, they generally have to pay the adoption agency. The surrogate mother is the only one who could potentially be exploited and turned into a baby-harvesting chattel. Such a law discourages surrogate mothers...
It is also perverse to deny a fee to a surrogacy broker, and fine him $10,000 if the accepts a fee, when adoption agencies are allowed to charge fees. All these illogicalities add up to an attempt to legislate morality, to create laws that would be based on social...
So far, however, the volunteers have performed remarkably well. In New York part-timers have established two separate structures: one to overcome the state's byzantine electoral laws and assure Perot a spot on the ballot, and another to cultivate grass-roots activities through November. One petition- drive worker in...