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Originally Posted by boxcar
I'm sure those "children born via surrogates" would be "wanted" by all kinds of people.
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Let's say a married couple finds that the wife cannot conceive and doctors cannot fix the problem. What are their options? Adoption is one possibility but if they want to pass on their own DNA then surrogacy is the only option. That's not cheap. Legal fees average $15,000 nation wide. The surrogate's fee averages $20,000. Medical costs are $5,000 per attempt and four out of five attempts fail. That's a total of $60,000 just to get the surrogate pregnant. Plus the wannabe parents pay all medical expenses. In case of a miscarriage they are back to square one.
People who are willing and able to pay that kind of money really want a child.
On the other hand children born by the "regular" method are quite likely to be "accidents" and not wanted at all.
You seem to be operating under the delusion that there is some black market in babies. There's no evidence of that at all.
