Goodman on surrogacy

John Waggett

Mrs. Mikhaylova

English 102

9/8/2011

Surrogacy?

            Goodman expresses her discontent with surrogacy throughout this short piece. She believes that this act is taking our planet towards a step in the wrong direction. Third world countries and even more so civilized societies are now starting to take part in this new marketplace phenomenon. However, this may be financially helpful for certain woman in these countries who make trivial amounts of money every year. That would be about the only upside to surrogacy, but Goodman implies that she believes this is ethically and morally wrong. Some women do not even consider the baby being born in their own womb to be theirs.

            Goodman uses pathos in order to appeal to the emotion of the reader. Her examples of pathos grasp the reader and commence to make one enthralled in the topic presented.  Goodman probably tries to make one feel bad for the babies of which are born so their birth mother can gain a subsequently inhumane few thousand. This would most likely upset a vast majority of women. Goodman’s tone towards the respective subject also translates the general point she is trying to get across about her feelings regarding surrogacy. A certain level of sarcasm is present in this piece which magnificently portraits her non hypothetical opinion considering the topics ghastly nature because the situation is in fact real and so is her sarcasm displayed in the text.

            This topic strikes me as problematic, memorable and disturbing. I find this problematic because surrogacy is wrong, and there is always the possibility that it could evolve into an even worse problem. Goodman’s argument is memorable because consequently I have never heard of surrogacy, and I think that is fundamentally corrupt and vile. Lastly, the thought of a woman having eggs and sperm that do not belong to her or her significant other being combined to make a human being is morally and equivocally unjust to society and existence.