In his essay on “womb for rent”, Ellen Goodman, pays attention to the surrogacy world that is prevalent in the modern world. Surrogacy is a condition by which women or mothers who cannot be able to conceive a child or children goes through to have a kid. In this way, men who are willing to be paid to donate their seeds to become the surrogate fathers deliver their sperms into the sperm bags after which they are put into the female reproductive system via technology. As such, in his writing, Ellen Goodman tries to present reasons why surrogate practice is done and postulates various reasons why it should be curbed down. According to Goodman, he noted that surrogacy has cut across diverse countries stretching from one continent and extending to others. Therefore, with lots of concern Ellen realized that surrogacy has become an issue of global concern and as such, should be viewed as a different dimension. The focus of this essay is, therefore, to analyze the …show more content…
Regarding this, she lets her audience have a clear view of both sides of surrogate mothers bearing in mind that not everything is wicked. In opposition to the surrogate mothers, she views surrogacy as a malicious dealing whereby people trade themselves into slavery (Sughrue, E., Sughrue,). Additionally, she criticizes this as a dirty dealing where people are marketing their children for money. To put this clear, she quotes, “we cannot trade ourselves into servitude. Besides the surrogacy business comes perilously close to both of these deals”. According to her, she uses the term slavery to portray the painful picture of both the dishonorable and dissolute actions. As such, the author applies such terminology to create the emotional effect to her audience and induce them into sympathizing with surrogate mothers and their babies at