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Post by Dee on May 16, 2008 16:11:29 GMT -5
For those who don't know, this is a woman who carries a baby for someone else and turns it over after its birth.
What do you think about the surrogate mother who goes into this knowing the baby is for someone else, but decides she wants to keep it after carrying it all that time and doesn't want to give the baby up?
There have been several cases like that here.
Should the surrogate mother have any rights to the baby?
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Post by Devyn_Baby on May 16, 2008 19:30:49 GMT -5
I think it depends on whose baby it is. If the egg from another women, then I don't think she should have any legal rights over the child, because it isn't hers biologically.
If the child is biologically hers, then she better plan on paying back every last sent that she was paid to have that child.
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Post by Dee on May 16, 2008 19:36:39 GMT -5
But does the egg really matter if the woman legally agrees to turn over the baby?
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Post by Devyn_Baby on May 16, 2008 20:32:46 GMT -5
If it's not her egg. it isn't her child. Simple as that.
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Post by Dee on May 16, 2008 20:40:22 GMT -5
But even if it is her egg, she more or less gets paid to give it away. Unless it's a relative or close friend, they don't do it for free.
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Post by Devyn_Baby on May 16, 2008 20:45:50 GMT -5
I'm aware of that. That's why I mentioned that if the egg is the egg of the surrogate mother, she better plan on paying back that money and all other expenses that would be attached to it.
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Post by Dee on May 16, 2008 20:50:54 GMT -5
The surrogate mom who changes her mind isn't thinking whose egg it is. She's thinking that it was in her body and she has a claim to it.
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Post by xxbrittanyxx on May 17, 2008 10:15:53 GMT -5
funny this subject comes up because i just saw "baby mama" last night...they baby should go to its rightful mother but they could organize something so that the surrogate mother still gets to be in the baby's life...
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Post by lolly on May 17, 2008 16:41:57 GMT -5
I think it's up to the people involved to decide what happens. If the parents are happy for the surrogate to be in the baby's life that's great, but if they aren't they have to make it clear beforehand
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Post by Dee on May 17, 2008 17:31:43 GMT -5
Yeah, but even if you do that beforehand, the surrogate mom doesn't know how she'll feel after carrying that baby and having to turn it over. She may think it will be no problem, but after going through labor and seeing it, they sometimes have second thoughts, just like moms turning babies over for adoption.
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Post by admin on May 18, 2008 0:14:12 GMT -5
I think the whole surrogate mother thing can be tough. Mother's always say as they carry their baby, they feel more attached to it. I don't think it would be any different for a surrogate mother.
Both women should know what could possibly go on and agree on some type of agreement.
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Post by Dee on May 18, 2008 23:09:02 GMT -5
I think that it would be easier if the surrogate could have contact with the child. If not for her, the child wouldn't be there.
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Post by admin on May 19, 2008 16:46:49 GMT -5
Yea, because the surrogate mother did carry the child. There's going to be a connection.
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