[quote HelloFrostyMorning]@KurtWilde
For starters she's not 'a poor woman', she's part of an agency and has been a surrogate 5 times before. You're talking like they just dragged a random woman off the street and impregnated her against her wishes... Surrogates know the risks of pregnancy just like any woman who carries a baby and births it does. It's fully consented to and the best health care is provided when it's all done properly.....
This. ^ I can't get wound up about women being surrogates tbh. Not all of them are 'poor' and destitute, as someone stated further back, and I agree that doing it 5 times does not automatically mean she is poor. Many women do it for altruistic reasons, and yeah, for the money too sometimes.
But just because someone does something for money, that doesn't mean they're 'poor' and disadvantaged and vulnerable.
I know it doesn't suit some to hear it but it's true.
I don't see the same faux horror, and pearl-clutching when someone gets to adopt a baby. It's all 'awwww I am SO pleased for you OP, you will make a wonderful mother.' #Living the dream #mummy4life.
No-one gives a flying fuck about the poor woman who has given up her baby. Do they think the 'birth mother' gave up the baby because he/she had the wrong colour eyes?
NO.
It was the most difficult and devastating decision of her life, and she will NEVER recover from it. It will be the first thing she thinks about when she wakes up, and the last thing she thinks about before she goes to sleep. EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE.
But people (on here) are too busy awwing and cooing over someone getting a baby, to give a shit about the birth mother.
Hypocrisy at its finest. 
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With respect @HelloFrostyMorning the number of children voluntarily given up for adoption in the UK is tiny. In the states it's much bigger and, again, done on a commercial scale. But in the UK it's a tiny number. Most adoptions take place where children have had to be removed from their birth families. I haven't seen any 'you go girl' posts on MN about that, rather supportive posts for adoptive families dealing with children who have had a very poor start to their lives.