This film is disturbing.
You could tell that the man was taken aback by couples that were okay with using two surrogates and laughing about aborting extra fetuses if they were to get 4 of them. I would hope that he would follow his gut and not work with a clinic like that. You could tell the main clinic shown is run by a woman that does care in some level how these women and babies are cared for, and she has her rules, which I respect. But he ditched her for this clinic completely lacking morals that resides in places where women and children are sleeping on the streets on rugs. All these families suffering, but lets create up to 6 babies at once and abort 5 of them. Obviously sounds wrong.
I'm not against abortion, when someone is unable to handle pregnancy or they were raped or there are serious concerns over health and yadda yadda, but just making life and destroying it... seems like a step too far. I think when you do this sort of thing and you risk multiple births, you should consider dealing with your choice with a respect to those lives you chose to create. shouldn't those babies be adoptable? shouldn't both surrogates be able to bring the babies they pledged to care for to full term? They feel awful when they lose one, and it's not okay to do that to them on purpose.
I don't think a 57 yr old wanting kids is absolutely wrong, but I was irked that nothing of her is going into making this baby but her choice eggs and her choice sperm and money... it felt very cold hearted. She admitted she can care for multiple children, but I assume taking a chance to adopt a baby that isnt perfectly created with her money is less than ideal and not acceptable in her eyes. It's just seem so callous. I know fear of the unknown is real, but these elitists that want to engineer babies, not even progress their own DNA into a new life, but just create a perfect child unrelated to you is very sickening. Like they are the new special edition iPod.
I was concerned that some procedures were done with a flashlight in a dark room, and I didn't care for how they carried the babies out of the room in a metal tray. I have always been bothered by the coldness of hospital births, and that is extra bothersome to me. But I do like how they send staff to check on the women after they leave, and that woman that just had a baby does have a home now, and the home is under the wive's name (as the doctor insisted) even though her husband thinks she is practically brainless. -_- yeah but you allow a stupid women to do this to your stupid wife so you can have a house? what an ass.
The thing is about that clinic and doctor is that I do see again and again how much she cares. She is even having a hospital built to be able to provide for these women better. In a way she is empowering women in her sexist culture. I don't have a problem with her at all.
I don't find anything wrong with surrogacy or prostitution in itself, and I can see the comparison. I think everyone has a right over their own body to use it as they please. I think safety is something the government/industries should push, but it's not their decision what someone does with their own body. If a woman can make 6k, and that means a down payment on her house, she should be able to sell her womb/vagina or even kidneys. It's hers to sell. It should be done as safely as possible but nobody should stop her from doing it.
I wasn't bothered that a couple would trust the clinic to care for the baby, and I don't think the doctor and staff were completely untrustworthy only after they pop out the baby, but it did bother me that the parents were too busy to even be there. Why the f are you doing all this, if you can't even be there for the birth of your child? I see the parents in the future traveling and leaving their kid with the nanny, and blowing off recitals and being crap parents. I wouldn't even put my dog in a kennel unless I really felt I had to. I committed to my dogs more than these people commit to the baby they paid to have created. Once again, it's like a new iPad to them. "I know I was really looking forward to getting it when it came out, but it's fashion week in Paris and I really want to experience that first... can you guys just hold it there for me for a week or so? THANKS!
The egg donor they showed saying she might get cancer from all those drugs but if god wants her to have cancer, that's okay. WTF, you have a family to care for, and it is not okay to act like God is the reason you'd get cancer... your wiliness to let people experiment with your body for money is what could give you cancer. God has nothing to do with that. People need to take responsibility for their actions and stop acting like fate/god is the reason. Grow up! You are an adult now. Put fantasy aside and make smart decisions for your family. If you feel it's the best decision, and it's worth a remodeling project and new gun parts, you accept that you chose that if you get cancer and your child asks "why you, mama" "because mama made a decision she thought she could live with so we could have shiny guns." NOT "because God wants me to have cancer." If god exists, I'm sure it wouldn't spend time making a list of who is getting cancer this year. He's not the Santa of terminal diseases. And if one wants to hope and pray that is what god is like, I'm glad I don't know them. They are sick in the head.
Another thing I found disturbing is the practice of producing embryos and then storing them forever. If anybody believes in a soul being created when sperm and eggs come together, that is a messed up purgatory. Good thing I don't believe in souls, but i do not get how these people pay to have these made, and then just forget about them. Once again, they are so disattached from what they are paying to have done. This whole thing made me reconsider my fear of adoption/fostering. I may get a Damien but I know I wont be dealing with Dr Frankenstein or the townsfolk with pitchforks.
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