Should Surrogate Mother Be Legal in Taiwan?

        Nowadays, we face many problems and dilemmas in our surroundings, and we sometimes even can't come up with a solution to it, especially the events which have connection with technology and morality. Today, there are too many problems, considerations, and difficulties of bearing a child. Thus, the scientists invent a kind of technology that can make a couple bear their children in other women's womb. However, is alright to make this technology put into practice? What I want to discuss is a controversial issue nowadays that whether we should make the surrogate mother be legalized? There are some advantages and disadvantages to this issue, I will discuss it below.

        There are some benefits of using the surrogate mother:

(1) We can easily solve the problems of infecundity for mothers which have no wombs because of serious illness or have the womb hypoplasia.

(2) Women who are afraid of the painful process of giving birth can have children without pain.

(3) Mothers can fulfill their desires which have children without difficulty to work.

(4) It can offer a good way for homosexuals to have their own genetic descendants by exchange their sperms and ova between gays and lesbians.

(5) It is a kind of revelation of women's decision-making power which they can decide the way of having a child.

There are many different kinds of advantages of using the surrogate mother according to different mothers and situations, and there are also many areas make the surrogate mother legalize, such as England, Korea, Hong Kong, etc. Although they are all conditional to make it public to society, it still a critical progress in this event.

        However, there are also many influences and disadvantages in the utilization of surrogate mother. We can discuss the drawback from different aspects because it affects diverse sides in our society. Below are the defects of surrogate mother:

(1) The surrogate mothers may violate the contracts which mention that they have to return the children to their parent who provide sperms and ova, and arose the following problems.

(2) It can not be avoid that if the surrogate mothers ask for unrelated demand during the time of pregnancy, and how can they solve the problems? If the real parents don't consent their requests, will they hurt their children?

(3) Self identification: If children know that they aren't born from their own mother's womb but another woman's, they may have a messy self consideration of who is their real mother?

(4) The child will be regarded as a product that can be sold and the procreation can be seen as trade.

(5) The cost of surrogate mother is too expensive, only people who are in high or middle-high social status can afford it. It may enhance the gap between capitalists and laborers.

(6) It will also arose the problems of prenatal education: who should take this obligation and how does the prenatal work? In addition, if the concept of prenatal education are different, how do they deal with and how can the real mother know if the surrogate mother do the same things as the result they discuss?

        There will be many problems result if surrogate mothers are legalized in the future, how can our government and society solve the following problems? Thus, I am in the position of opposing the legalization of surrogate mother. Only there is a perfect law for the legalization of surrogate mother that I will support the legalization of surrogate mother. However, there is still a long way for us to pass through, let's wait and see.