write in 3-5 sentences response to this post .Respond to this post in your words
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write in 3-5 sentences response to this post .Respond to this post in your words .
1) A commodity is something that is used in trade, like a product for a service, things exchanged in commerce. Something that is needed, and can be bought and sold.
2)Treating people as a commodity in general would be wrong. To treat someone as simply as a commodity, takes away the realness of humanity. However, there may be positions and systems where people may be viewed as a commodity, like soldiers in an army in war, where numbers of people make a difference in the outcome. A general that is losing a battle may view an extra group of soldiers as "a commodity", but that is more in reference to a point in time, for a specific purpose, not towards their overall humanity.
3) I don't think that all these technologies necessarily treat children as commodities. I think that the process of surrogacy can be manipulated and abused, but that does not mean the technology is treating children as such. There is informed consent between two parties, and the intention is to have a child that is wanted by a family, who most likely for some reason is unable to do have one on their own. I think those kinds of intentions do not treat children as a commodity.
4) Some of the places I researched definitely gave me an eery feeling when you read that you can donate eggs for money, and that you are required to make a down payment before meeting a surrogate. This begins to feel bordering on treating children as a commodity. I do know of at least one situation where a young woman I know, had a bizarre heart attack at 26 years old, and was in a coma. She survived and mostly recovered but was unable to have children, and just last year, her and her husband had a surrogate give birth to their biological son. Situations like theirs make me conclude that not all technologies related to surrogacy are used to treat children as commodities.
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The important thing in surrogacy is that parents get their biological child. In cases of adoption earlier parents were given three children to choose from after registration for the process of adoption. This is like treating children as a commodity and that's why it was prohibited and now parents will not be provided the choice to choose to discourage the commodification of children and humanity. But there are few examples as mentioned in the post where surrogacy can really help out parents to give birth to their biological child and that's why it can be concluded that not all technologies treat children as commodities.
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