What happens when a woman can’t bear her own children (i can’t even imagine that pain)? She either adopts or goes through a surrogate.    i am mixed on the issue of surrogacy.  While i admire the women who offer their lives to help another couple, there are also many children who are waiting in poor conditions to be included in a family.  There have been a few articles put out recently about the rise in military women stepping up to offer their bodies and lives.  Some may argue it is about the money.  i believe that is may be a small aspect, however, i am sure these have to have their heart in it too.  Money is good but if you don’t like what you do, it becomes a chore to do it.  Military wives are seen as a good fit because they receive Tricare. 

Here is a great discussion of the Tricare system and how it pertains to surrogacy by A Soldier’s Mind:

In the military, while the service member pays a small monthly premium for their family’s health care, as long as that family member receives their health care on a military installation, there are no deductibles or co-pays. It’s apparent that surrogacy groups are taking advantage of that and putting other military families at risk of having their monthly premiums increased or even causing them to have to begin paying deductibles and co-pays. By using a military wife as a surrogate mother, surrogacy groups avoid paying about $20,000 for a standard surrogacy medical policy. They also don’t have to pay the deductibles and co-payments. Because of this advantage, some surrogacy groups will pay an additional $5,000 premium to military wives. After reading this article, I spoke to several military wives, wives of retirees, as well as Soldiers and military retirees. To a person, they all said that this angers them, because things like this drive the costs up for everyone else and they felt it was unfair that a military wife would take advantageof the Tricare medical insurance, in order to put some extra money in their pocket. I tend to agree with them. Tricare for retirees and their families doesrequire the retiree to pay deductibles and co-pays, as well as a much higher premium each month. We’ve all seen the news reports about retiree Tricare being on the rise. Things like this just make those rates continue to increase. Then you also have the issue that the military wives who are surrogates are committing fraud at the expense of American taxpayers.

Check out the piece ABC News had recently done.  One of the comments made me go..hhmm.  Someone mentioned the fact that our tax dollars cover the expenses of illegal immigrants. 

What do you think about this subject?