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Couples who are unfortunate to have a child tend to adopt but it affects the whole family considering that they are not biologically involved. Research indicates that individuals will move around restrictive laws to acquire a baby through the surrogacy process, which adds to the confusion of this poorly understood and regulated process (Bromham, 1995). Surrogacy is one of the options to consider on having a baby by women who are incapable and has past experience problems in her past pregnancies. Surrogacy is the practice whereby one woman (the surrogate mother) carries a child for another person(s) (the commissioning couple) as the result of an agreement prior to conception that the child should be handed over to that person after birth.

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (2006), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2008) and Council for Responsible Genetics (Council for Reproductive Genetics & Gugucheva, 2010), have published definitions for many of the terms associated with the process of reproductive surrogacy, and here are the following.

If a mother is physically incapable of bearing her own child she has a choice to whether rent a womb or not to have a child at all. In our own point of view, there are three factors that may affect the decision-making for couples who consider surrogacy as their option: (1) Compensation, (2) pregnancy experience, and (3) success rate. Surrogacy is expensive, including the process and compensation for the surrogate mother. Surrogates did not spend money on themselves alone, but usually on their other children, home improvement, etc., and surrogacy is viewed as a part-time job that would allow women to stay home with their children, Ragoṅe (1996). Surrogate mothers choose this kind of job not because they are fit to carry a child but rather it pays a good amount of compensation. One popular assumption is that a surrogate mother has a good reason to undertake surrogacy, such as financial desperation. Those who are not financially desperate are assumed to be acting from altruistic motivations because of a connection to the commissioning parents. These assumptions are also not generally supported by the evidence, such as found by anthropologist Dr. Helena Ragoné. A mother who gives birth to a child considers it a blessing or o gift but a surrogate mother snatches it away from the biological mothers.

 It is hard to accept that someone else will be carrying your child but that is the way on how you can have a baby of your own. And lastly, the success rate of surrogacy is high but there is still a chance of failure that causes fear to some. Surrogacy is beneficial to the parties involved in the agreement. The surrogate mother who is responsible for nurturing the child in her womb is compensated in accord with their agreement. The biological parents in return benefit by having their child through the help of the surrogate mother.