"Surrogacy is an abuse of power in an economically unbalanced world like the current one we live in. It increasingly puts poor women in the position of choosing whether to commercialize and sell their motherhood or condemn themselves and their children to poverty. It is extremely cruel, as it is also when women have to emigrate and abandon their families to earn a minimum wage to survive or end up in the network of prostitution for the same reason. [...] Apart from economic exploitation, I reject surrogate motherhood for ethical reasons: a person's psyche begins to build itself during pregnancy through the perception of the voice and the effects of maternal hormones that circulate in the fetal tissues and which match to the mother's voice and state of mind. Therefore, separation from the biological mother is always traumatic for the child and should be avoided whenever possible."
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