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And let me add, I am offended by your insinuation that I am not a "stable" candidate and that I need psychological counseling. However syrupy you make yourself sound, you are still insulting me. The fact is this child is my child biologically and spiritually, no contract will change that nor will anyone's biased opinions. I suspect your opinion comes from the idea that you need to choose a side in this surrogacy battle but let me tell you it is not so black and white. There are many IP's that choose to have continued contact with their surrogate and you had a poll, many surrogates woulsd not even agree to work with a couple that wanted no contact afterwords. People deceive eachother all the time and it is never ok. It is never ok to lie to an unexpecting person especially when it comes to something as lifechanging as creating a child. I wonder, would you be telling the birthmother of a child put up for adoption that it was not her child? What is the difference? A country where you do not have the right to change your mind would not be a free country. No other mother in this nation is without the inherent right to raise her child if she chooses to do so.

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Posted By: M. in Montana @ 05/10/2008 1:16:25 PM

What an uninspired article. You have completely missed the beautiful joy that surrogacy can be.
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Posted By: secondclassmama @ 04/27/2008 11:42:45 PM

sorry for the multiple posts but it kept telling me it couldn't add my comment so I kept clicking. oops!
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Posted By: secondclassmama @ 04/27/2008 11:40:42 PM

And let me add, I am offended by your insinuation that I am not a "stable" candidate and that I need psychological counseling. However syrupy you make yourself sound, you are still insulting me. The fact is this child is my child biologically and spiritually, no contract will change that nor will anyone's biased opinions. I suspect your opinion comes from the idea that you need to choose a side in this surrogacy battle but let me tell you it is not so black and white. There are many IP's that choose to have continued contact with their surrogate and you had a poll, many surrogates woulsd not even agree to work with a couple that wanted no contact afterwords. People deceive eachother all the time and it is never ok. It is never ok to lie to an unexpecting person especially when it comes to something as lifechanging as creating a child. I wonder, would you be telling the birthmother of a child put up for adoption that it was not her child? What is the difference? A country where you do not have the right to change your mind would not be a free country. No other mother in this nation is without the inherent right to raise her child if she chooses to do so.