Hello hive learners community, my name is @rishagamo and I am happy to be participating in the weekly prompt, week 159 – Edition 02 titled “Surrogacy”. I hope you will find it insightful. Thank you.
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Among the blessings of technological development is the blessing of surrogacy. According to Wikipedia; surrogacy is a legal arrangement between two parties where a woman agrees to pregnancy and childbirth on behalf of another person or couple who becomes the legal parent after birth. People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons, such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility. link.
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I usually thought a surrogate child was conceived and kept in an incubator until it was fully developed, I never thought a surrogate mother was involved in the process not until recently, then I started to wonder about the possibility of having a woman carry a child for a whole period of 9 months, give birth to that give naturally and after the bound she has with this child, give the child up to another person. Although with all these thoughts of mine, I still strongly believe that this practice is a blessing to humanity. I recently watched a movie that was a real-life testament to the birth of IVF, and realized how difficult and depressing life can be for some women and spouses who find It impossible to have children the traditional way, these individuals will do anything just for the cry of a child in the houses even if it means risking their lives.
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We are not permitted to judge certain situations unless we are in such a situation, there is no wrong if a couple is unlucky to have a child through the surrogate method rather than the usual method. The development of science and its purpose are meant to serve issues like this. Science is there to make life better and more bearable and we should accept surrogacy with an open mind.
In conclusion, surrogacy is a remarkable blessing in technological advancement that has offered hope to the infertile and the like, while it may raise ethical and emotional questions, it is important to result in empathy and understanding with an open mind, then we will appreciate the joy that surrogacy brings to families and in so doing we will also get to celebrate the role of science in human endeavors.