The Surrogate

20/20 is giving me a lot of blog material lately. I came across a story the other day about a woman who had 3 kids of her own and 8 kids for other people. She's a Serial Surrogate and says giving the baby she carried to the parents who couldn't carry it themselves is the best present she can give.

She became a surrogate mother when she was looking for a job she could do from home so she could spend time with her 3 young children. She says she loves being pregnant, and loves the attention she gets as a pregnant woman.

While you get $25K-$40K per pregnancy something tells me that's not worth it (that's in the U.S., interestingly enough in Britain the surrogate mother can't be paid for more than "reasonable expenses due to pregnancy"). I've never experienced pregnancy but from what I've seen and heard it's not too pretty. I'm not sure how "life threatening" it is but putting yourself at that kind of health risk for someone seems like it could be a really hard challenge. Would you or could you do it?

Supposedly the people she carries the baby for are couples who just can't carry their own child... as in the embryo is theirs. Do you think there's anything morally wrong with that? Personally, I don't. I mean, I think it would be hard to sacrifice that much for someone else but I don't think it's wrong.

I'm not gonna lie. It's crossed my mind before... The thought of hiring a surrogate (yea, I'm a hypocrite I know). I didn't think long an hard about it but at one point in time I thought "yea, hire someone else to do all the work. Sweet!" Now I don't think that's an option I'd consider unless I medically couldn't carry my own child. I definitely think I'd consider adoption first--But let's pray I am not limited to choose either.

Either way I thought it was a very interesting story. Myself being a journalist, I find people like this very intriguing and if I ever meet a being like this I'd trap them and ask them 20 questions.
Here's the report: