(revised) Annotation 3: Surrogacy: A New Hope for Gay Couples

As I mentioned in the beginning of my paper, surrogacy can also give a resolution to gay couples who want to have their own children. We can see from the video that the gay couple was happy for having their genetic child through surrogacy, they showed their delight to have the child. It seemed that the surrogacy give them a new hope to their life. They are full of joy, and the child is their happiness.

Besides, according to the article, we can know that there are many people that object to make gay couples adopt children because of their sexuality reasons in many nations. "Since it becomes very difficult for gay couples to adopt children, Surrogacy is the only option left for them to have a child." (Edwards, 2012) Otherwise, having their own genetic children through this way also has many advantages:

They can as a result get pleasure from the security of having a child which

　　　　is naturally theirs. They can also aid the surrogate mother at some stage in
　　　　the tenure of her pregnancy and make certain of her good health and that of
　　　　their unborn child thereof. Knowing the surrogate mother's past history will
　　　　guarantee you of the health of your unborn child. (Edwards, 2012)
Thus, we can realize that the surrogacy not only help the couples who are unable to have their own children through fertility problems but also assist gay couple to fulfill their dream of having genetic children. Surrogacy gives many people hopes and happiness, so why prohibit it?

Although some of the people still oppose to it because of the problems below: they may be treated as an object which is their only function is to give birth to other people’s children, and they are forced to be as a surrogate mother by their families because of the financial problems. Truly, these kind of problems exit, but if we change our mind to think this event with opposite way, we may have different outcomes. The surrogate mother although may truly be treated unfairly, if they can change their mind to think that being a surrogate mother not only help their own family (solve the financial difficulties) but also help others’ families (give them new hope to have their own genetic children), the problems are not anymore problems, we all beneficial from this technology.

However, I have to admit that this technology for the gay couples really have defects. That is, when the children grow up, they may ask where their real mothers are and they may also be discriminated by other people. Thus, how can we use this technology right and how can we provide safeguard to avoid the following problems, it’s really a big and worth-thinking issue to us.

Reference

-Edwards, Christopher. (March, 2012). For Gay Couples, Surrogacy Is Like a Light of Hope Retrieved from http://goarticles.com/article/For-gay-couples-surrogacy-is-like-a-light-of-hope/6199140/

-NewsX Online. (February, 2012). Commercial Surrogacy: A New Hope for Gay Couples Retrieved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLkUCfywazQ&feature=related