Word: selfishly
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...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 engineering instead of sound legal principles. The surrogate mother is stigmatized as selfish and greedy, an image that will make surrogates' struggle for visitation or joint custody rights all the more difficult...
Laws condemning "baby-selling" only increase the surrogate mother's dilemma: paradoxically, while the courts often view her as a selfish contract-breaker when she sues for some type of parental rights, this new law also condemns her as a selfish slave-trader when she consents to be compensated for the child's loss...
...Taking care of your own kind first" is one of the great dilemmas of modern politics. While a national leader has a mandate to protect the interests of his constituents, he and his country risk appearing selfish if they refuse to intervene when foreign powers commit atrocities or start unjust wars...
...this time, and a simple threat to leave was all that was needed to break the logjam. A bully respects a bully. In her book, Hepburn speaks candidly of being "totally selfish," "a me, me, me person." To Ludlow Ogden Smith, her husband of six years whose only mistake was that he loved her, she admits to being an "absolute pig." He tried everything to please her, went so far as to change his name so that she wouldn't be known as Kate Smith. "Isn't that the way it is?" She shrugs. "Luddy loved me and would...
...into Nobel-prizewinner sperm banks, does not mean it should be. Imagine if men decided that motherhood was equally expendable. Sated with their corner offices and home gyms, guys of a certain age could go around paying women to have babies for them. The howl of feminists over such selfish, macho pigs could tie up talk-radio lines for years. Fatherhood may take moments, motherhood nine months, but doing it right takes the lifelong commitment of both parents...