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An odd, not-quite-paradoxical consensus is forming in our discussion
over surrogacy. There is the assumption that the sticker price of
$20,000 is surprisingly low, along with the assumption that surrogacy
is so astronomically expensive that it’s only available to rich ladies with billionaire husbands and baby nurses.
Both might well be true, but I’m more convinced by the former than the
latter. Is surrogacy really out of the reach of your average
middle-class dual-income couple that can, at any rate, afford to raise
a kid for 18 years? Traditional pregnancies are by no means cost-free,
so the cost of hiring a surrogate over becoming pregnant is lower than
it first appears.
The real question is why, in the age of the active,
mercury-avoiding, one-glass-of-Merlot-will-destroy-your-baby-forever
pregnancy, wealthy women are not bidding up the price for equally
vigilant super-surrogates ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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