Goodman claims that surrogacy is becoming its own market and is starting to cross the boundary of selling ourselves into slavery and selling our children as well. Her reasons are valid in my eyes. Her best point is that you never see a rich woman become a surrogate for a poor family. It can start to be construed as slavery in everyone’s eyes. Goodman says that it is becoming an international business and that people are looking for the “best deals”.
Goodman makes her appeal to pathos when she talks about what women that completed surrogacy did with the money afterwards. One used the money to buy a heart operation for her son and the other raised a dowry for her daughter. These appeals function as a way of showing two sides of the surrogacy argument. On one hand it makes money for women to better themselves and their own family and on the other hand it is turning to much into an industry between different countries societies.
The additional focus I chose is, “What motivated the writer to produce this piece”. Goodman’s motivation comes from the increasing popularity in surrogacy and the abuse of the whole process involved. This strengthens my perspective of Goodman’s argument because I tend to agree with her motivation behind the piece. It seems to me that the system of surrogacy is being abused for financial gain but there are also people that use it for its rightful purposes so it becomes a tough topic.
The thing that strikes me as disturbing is the fact that international this is becoming an economic gain. For instance, Goodman says 45 women in India will earn $5000 to $7000 dollars for delivery. It is becoming a way of supplementing income and I found that to be quite disturbing that people can’t just get jobs and work in some other way.
I agree with you that surrogacy is mostly being "abused for financial gain" and that it is a contradictory subject. I also think that the examples she used for suggesting that surrogacy is okay were very rare cases and that most cases are for monetary gain. In response to your last sentence, I think that they can get jobs doing other things but they make so much more money being surrogates as opposed to working somewhere else, which is why it is becoming a "supplementing income". I also find it very disturbing and somewhat disappointing to hear.
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