Commercial surrogacy

I'm going to add a link about how poor mothers are being exploited for their breast milk. I remember being constantly thirsty and hungry when I breast fed. Women in the UK can expect their employer to provide them with somewhere to lie down and rest when they are breast feeding. But these breast milk farms just provide women with tables and chairs, and their own babies appear to be going hungry.

An Example of Capitalism Literally Milking the Poor
www.stopsurrogacynow.com/an-example-of-capitalism-literally-milking-the-poor/#sthash.Xf6VYecR.dpbs

I was all in favour of surrogacy, having gay relatives, until a family member adopted a baby, and I did a lot of reading of early trauma.
There is, I'm told, fairly robust evidence to say that removing a baby from its mother is a pretty severe trauma. No matter how young the baby. And should only be done in the child's best interests.
And then I became a mother myself and saw how much my newborn KNEW me, and preferred me over others.
And then I happened across an article about surrogates in India and how they are treated.
And I'm now wholly against surrogacy, except maybe within a close knit family. Maybe.

I think to be anti surrogacy one needs to have read around it, as the instinct is to go "aww, how lovely".

Thanks OP. This is an area where I can feel my opinion changing as I begin to locate it as an issue related to the rights of women and especially children. With a v possibly gay DC I had been all for it in an unthinking kind of way.

There's a growing body of research on the importance of the environment in utero including that the baby begins to be attached to its mother from before birth. They come out preferring their mother's voices for instance. (I love that people manage to conduct experiments around this kind of thing!)

No problem at all with the idea of gay parents, obviously great if they can adopt but I know that's hard currently. Could getting used to shaping families differently work? Gay parents joining forces with lesbian parents for example or with single women who were choosing to go it alone? Does the hetero model have to be only way?