SURROGACY, AN ACT OF GENEROSITY OR PERVERSION? ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

The emerging surrogacy market in India has once more drawn attention to this highly controversial mode of having a family. Is surrogacy an act of generosity enabling infertile couples to taste the joys of parenthood or is it a completely unnatural, unthinkable medical development. Should making babies be big business or is this area of human life sacred? Do your research and write an argumentative essay on this highly topical issue which is trending now.
Refer to my second blog, The Essay Archive, for sample essays: https://theessayarchive.blogspot.com.tr/  

Reading texts to annotate:

1.       “Foreigners are flocking to India to rent wombs and grow surrogate babies” http://www.businessinsider.com/india-surrogate-mother-industry-2013-9

2.       “The Baby Factory: in a huge clinic in India, hundreds of women are paid 5000 dollars each to have Western couples’ babies” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439977/The-baby-factory-In-huge-clinic-India-hundreds-women-paid-5-000-Western-couples-babies.html

3.       “Womb for rent: surrogate mothers in India” http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/features/womb-rent-surrogate-mothers-india

4.       “The British babies made in India” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/10324970/The-British-babies-made-in-India.html

5.       “Surrogate motherhood in India” http://www.stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/Surrogacy/moralethical.html

Videos to watch and make notes on:

1.       “Fertility doctor offers low cost surrogates to foreigners” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaVLEC8phY

2.       “Ethics of outsourcing pregnancy to India” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgNTO3j3rE