Womb for Rent - With a Price

Goodman's main claim is that these surrogate pregnancy's are good but may become dangerous. Goodman says that people who may not have jobs or women who are having to do very strenuous work are being paid much more money by having these babies. But she also brings up the point of where do we draw the line? These surrogate mothers may bring up a lot of questions in the future of slavery and also selling these children.

Goodman uses these ideas of slavery and the selling of children to try and appeal towards pathos. When people think of slavery they think of people being treated terribly and being forced to work which because this was a very large deal in our country may make people think about if the surrogate is the right thing to do. Goodman also uses selling of children to appeal to pathos. Any parent with a kid would fall into this argument as it is obvious the selling of children is unethical.

Goodmans purpose for this piece was to show people the future problems of surrogate mothers and the ethical issues we need to deal with. Goodman brings up the points that surrogate mothers come very close to the boundaries of both slavery and also selling of children. If people think that these surrogate mothers are okay then they can twist it and bring back slavery or start selling children and claim that they are doing the same types of things.

The thing that strikes me as most problematic is people in the future bringing up the point that because they are selling babies to families that it is okay to start selling children for whatever the reason is and just use the excuse that the family wanted a child. People with bad intentions can take something that is meant for good and turn it into something to profit them.