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The public controversy over surrogate motherhood is accelerating. Because surrogacy questions cherished cultural beliefs and ideals regarding the mother-infant relationship, it inenvitably stimulates intense anxiety and discomfort. Women who choose to bear children voluntarily for someone else reap disdain, and are seen as cold, heartless, and mercenary, because they seem to so easily “give away their babies". Even in the absence of the issue of fee payment, there is a clear moralistic underpinning to the arguments against surrogacy, which is rarely stated overtly, that choosing to have a baby for
someone else is reprehensible because it represents a “rejection" of the infant by its biological mother. These women, who are seen as being prompted by materialistic motives, are correspondingly seen as coming from a financial and/or social “underclass". This is perceived as making them vulnerable to being exploited by reproductively “prostituting" themselves. Finally, they are assumed to suffer a serious traumatic experience because of the perceived “loss" they suffer in surrendering the infant to the couple.

Although critics have been vocal and strident, there is little actual data to substantiate these claims. This study was a preliminary effort to assess the reality of the assumptions behind this stereotype, to clarify their motives.

This is an abstract from a study on surrogate mothers from "The American Surrogacy Center" by Dr. Betsy P. Aigen.

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