Peer Response (2)

(1) April

[Comment 1] My first impression is, I understand your writing, and I agree with you. But I am more concern with this sentence "The involvement of a third person from whose flesh this child is produced means that the child is linked with another", it is a real problem because the baby will receive blood and nutrition from third party.

[My response 1] Thank you and yes, this is the main argument in this annotation and we can't find a balanced way to deal with it.

[Comment 2] If it is the main, why don't you give more space on it?

[My response 2] Yes, I will think more and give more space on it.

[Comment 3] In your writing, I understand that: the physical problem may cause psychological problem later on, is that your argument?

[My response 3] Yes, in this annotation, the main argument is that, and many problems resulted from it: children's identity, moral questions, and there seems no proper way to deal with it, the solution to both sides can also intrigue problems. Thus, in my point of view, I'm agree with this article, and the surrogacy should be prohibited.

[Comment 4] You should mention about in which cases it will be immoral, because not every cases are immoral, for example: the women cannot give birth.

[My response 4] One of the immoral is the origin parents treat the surrogate as a means to give birth to their children, and the other is if we treat the surrogate as a person, she also have intimate connection to the child, how can we take the child away, they're all immoral to the surrogate.

[Comment 5] I think the word must be "psychological".

[My response 5] I think the moral problems have something connections to the psychological.

[Comment 6] No, it's dependence. It depends in which case.

[My response 6] Depend, but also exploit, they depend on it because they don't have other choices, so they exploit them by paying low to use surrogacy.

[Comment 7] I don't think that it is exploitation, that payment is even higher than they got from their turmoil work with hands.

[My response 7] Yes, but the fee is different between India and America.

[Comment 8] CPI of each country is different, 10 US$ in US you cannot buy much, but in India, people could buy more think with the same amount.

[My response 8] Yes, but in my point of view, surrogate mother should be treated all the same in the world.

[Comment 9] Evelyn, do you need to determine your view, do you take a view from a baby's benefit, or from the third party's benefit or from the real parent?

[My response 9] Yes, I think in this annotation, I stand in the side of third party.

(2) Jessica Iveth Villasenor

[Comment 1] So you thing is morally wrong? May cause too much troubles after?

[My response 1] Yes, I think so. It will cause a lot of problems later.

[Comment 2] Maybe Evelyn you can explain about this two differentiations, and give more space for your own point of view.

[My response 2] OK, thanks. I will.

[Comment 3] I think the annotation is pretty good, just more explanation for the moral and immoral types of surrogacy.

[My response 3] Thanks.

[Comment 4] I think everybody has different point of view, add actually that is the purpose of the research, Evelyn has to convince others trough proves and articles that what she argues for is right.

[My response 4] Yes, thanks. That's what I will do in my revision.

[Comment 5] Maybe a clearer explanation of your point of view is ok.

[My response 5] Hum.....ok. I should think more about it, sorry.

[Comment 6] Maybe you can talk about each party, but always being clear about the one you argue for.

[My response 6] OK, thank you for you guys advices, sorry for that I'm not thinking so much, I will try my best to make it more clear.

(3) Ariel

[Comment 1] But why should that kind of things called immoral?

[My response 1] I think it's because we treated not properly, and hurt their personal rights, thus called "immoral".

[Comment 2] Even if they're lazy to born a child themselves, it's not a crime then.

[My response 2] OK, but the crime I think is to exploit the surrogate mothers.

[Comment 3] But what about the economical benefit they got? They're voluntarily to do that.

[My response 3] Yes, although they are willing to do it, but it's also somehow an exploit to it because as the video in annotation 1 mentioned, people go to India for surrogate mother is because it's cheaper there, so it's some kind of exploitation I think.

(4) Sharon Tsai

[Comment 1] I think this issue is somehow alike to Test Tube Baby.

[My response 1] Yes, it's similar, but it also a little different. Because the Test Tube Baby doesn't have strong relationship to a third party.