. i'd given remarkably lttle thought to psychology behind the whole concept of surrocy . it had never been on my personal radar .
perhaps it was aive of me , but i didn't consider surrogacy particularly controverrsial , at least not from a medical-ethical standpoint , it seem to me that thee decision to enter into a surrogacy arrangement involved consenting adults engaging in - after a healthy dollop of scientific intervention - the completel;y natural act of growing a baby inside a willing womb .
te psychological issues were much more complex .
the ethical minefield that merideth had alluded to when we'd talked in strawberry fields - the question of what to do about all those excess fertilized eggs that are an inevitable by product of the in vitro process - was one of those divisive debates that thus far in my life hadn't slapped me in the face and demanded that i take a personal stand .
are the fertilized eggs really just surplus biological material ? or are they children ? or are they , as some had begun arguing , tiny stmcell factories waiting to be exploited for the greater good by science and medicine ?
once the creating coouple , the parents , determined that it had no further use for the embryos , how should they be disposed of ? down the drain > donation to science ? adoption by less fortune couples ?
t reached no conclusions before i had thedriver drop me near times square .
i wasn't ready go back to ottavia's . i needed to renew my urban contact high before i hiked back to the sublet across town .
perhaps it was aive of me , but i didn't consider surrogacy particularly controverrsial , at least not from a medical-ethical standpoint , it seem to me that thee decision to enter into a surrogacy arrangement involved consenting adults engaging in - after a healthy dollop of scientific intervention - the completel;y natural act of growing a baby inside a willing womb .
te psychological issues were much more complex .
the ethical minefield that merideth had alluded to when we'd talked in strawberry fields - the question of what to do about all those excess fertilized eggs that are an inevitable by product of the in vitro process - was one of those divisive debates that thus far in my life hadn't slapped me in the face and demanded that i take a personal stand .
are the fertilized eggs really just surplus biological material ? or are they children ? or are they , as some had begun arguing , tiny stmcell factories waiting to be exploited for the greater good by science and medicine ?
once the creating coouple , the parents , determined that it had no further use for the embryos , how should they be disposed of ? down the drain > donation to science ? adoption by less fortune couples ?
t reached no conclusions before i had thedriver drop me near times square .
i wasn't ready go back to ottavia's . i needed to renew my urban contact high before i hiked back to the sublet across town .
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