o would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate

Surrogacy provides booming buzzing business opportunities which should be seized by the third world countries. The developed countries are still vetoing it through controversial legal and ethical hassles.

In India, surrogacy industry is valued at $449 million, and it seems to be doubling ((www.csmonitor.com/2006). Kenya’s first ever babies that were born through In Vitro-fertilization on Monday May 8th 2006 at a cost of Ksh.300, 000 benefited both the doctors and the parents concerned.

In surrogacy a mother lends her uterus to another or to a couple so that they can have a baby through a medical process called In Vitro-fertilization.

In Vitro-fertilization is a method of reproduction whereby … human life is begun in a laboratory. Sperm and ova are placed together in a special solution. Some of the eggs are fertilized and the blastocysts develop rapidly. Then the doctors select what appears to be the strongest cell-unit and implant it into the uterus of a woman who has been prepared for pregnancy by means of hormones. This procedure enables some married women with blocked fallopian tubes to have babies.’’(Lugt, 1981)

While it was impossible humanly speaking, without a miracle, for a woman to conceive without heterosexual intercourse during the times of Mary the mother of Jesus, it is very possible for women of these days to have their own babies through several ways. First, women have begun having babies through artificial insemination. This process is so impressive to women because it allows them to choose from the sperm banks the best sperms with the best traits, which they desire, their children to have. It is the best offer for those who believe in Eugenics but it is a threat to the less intelligent men.

As stated in the above quotation, in vitro-fertilization is a medical remedy to those women with blocked fallopian tubes who would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate

d the parents concerned.

In surrogacy a mother lends her uterus to another or to a couple so that they can have a baby through a medical process called In Vitro-fertilization.

In Vitro-fertilization is a method of reproduction whereby … human life is begun in a laboratory. Sperm and ova are placed together in a special solution. Some of the eggs are fertilized and the blastocysts develop rapidly. Then the doctors select what appears to be the strongest cell-unit and implant it into the uterus of a woman who has been prepared for pregnancy by means of hormones. This procedure enables some married women with blocked fallopian tubes to have babies.’’(Lugt, 1981)

While it was impossible humanly speaking, without a miracle, for a woman to conceive without heterosexual intercourse during the times of Mary the mother of Jesus, it is very possible for women of these days to have their own babies through several ways. First, women have begun having babies through artificial insemination. This process is so impressive to women because it allows them to choose from the sperm banks the best sperms with the best traits, which they desire, their children to have. It is the best offer for those who believe in Eugenics but it is a threat to the less intelligent men.

As stated in the above quotation, in vitro-fertilization is a medical remedy to those women with blocked fallopian tubes who would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate

-unit and implant it into the uterus of a woman who has been prepared for pregnancy by means of hormones. This procedure enables some married women with blocked fallopian tubes to have babies.’’(Lugt, 1981)

While it was impossible humanly speaking, without a miracle, for a woman to conceive without heterosexual intercourse during the times of Mary the mother of Jesus, it is very possible for women of these days to have their own babies through several ways. First, women have begun having babies through artificial insemination. This process is so impressive to women because it allows them to choose from the sperm banks the best sperms with the best traits, which they desire, their children to have. It is the best offer for those who believe in Eugenics but it is a threat to the less intelligent men.

As stated in the above quotation, in vitro-fertilization is a medical remedy to those women with blocked fallopian tubes who would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate

t, women have begun having babies through artificial insemination. This process is so impressive to women because it allows them to choose from the sperm banks the best sperms with the best traits, which they desire, their children to have. It is the best offer for those who believe in Eugenics but it is a threat to the less intelligent men.

As stated in the above quotation, in vitro-fertilization is a medical remedy to those women with blocked fallopian tubes who would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate

o would otherwise stay childless. This is the first benefit of this method.

Secondly, this method will also benefit those rich women who may be busy with their careers or studies yet they want to bear babies of their own flesh and blood. A couple in this situation can just hire a woman to carry their baby until she delivers and probably baby-sit the baby as a paid maid. Women nowadays do offer their wombs to be rented. A woman who does this is called a surrogate mother because she is not the biological mother of the child whom she carries.

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Thirdly, In vitro-fertilization can create some booming business opportunities to those poor women who would otherwise become prostitutes. These women would just offer their wombs to be rented by those ones who need to have their own biological babies but are either busy, too rich, or are avoiding the biblical pains of child bearing. Those surrogate mothers who agree to be paid to carry other people’s babies will surely fetch a lot of money and therefore the business of rented wombs is economically viable.

The fourth benefit of IVF is that it gives satisfaction and pleasure to otherwise depressed couples. What is pleasure? In his book, C.D. Broad defines pleasure as the consciousness of a transition to heightened vitality and pain as the consciousness of a transition to lowered vitality and these are the only ultimate good and evil.(Broad,1971) As human beings we feel good when we are uplifted by our successes, good health, sweet meals and other pleasantries. But we feel irritated, nauseated and sick when we are lowered down by our failures, poor health, fatigue, poor or broken relationships and others.

However, what is the perceived spiritual danger that may befall those women who have their own biological children through the paid services of surrogate mothers? These women do not carry the babies in their wombs, and they do not suffer birth pains yet they at last enjoy seeing their children grow up.

It is only the poor woman whose womb has been rented who will suffer the increased pain of childbearing. Are those women who hire wombs of the other women exempted from the curse that God pronounced on Eve? Is this, ‘rented womb’ technology, threatening to render the Bible obsolete? Certainly not: Surrogacy should not be seen