Do you believe that surrogate mothers should be able to have some parental rights after the child is born?

i.e. visitation rights, etc.Do you believe that surrogate mothers should be able to have some parental rights after the child is born?
A friend of mine is a parent of a child that a surrogate carried for them. They are very thankful to her for what she did but No I do not feel the surrogate mom should have rights to the child. There are to many cases where surrogates attempt to take the child, refuse to give it up and so forth. You sign a contract stating you will give up all rights to the child at birth and it should be stuck to. In my friends case it was her eggs and her husbands sperm this isnt always the case the surrogate had no biological relationship to the child
No. If she want's to be part of the child's life then she shouldn't give it up - it's selfish, talk about confusing the kid!!!Do you believe that surrogate mothers should be able to have some parental rights after the child is born?
no. i do not. how confusing for the child.



a surrogate, is just that. its like renting a room at a hotel. after you rent that room, and you leave, should you still be able to come back when you want? i dont think so.



i think that if you are a surrogate mother, and you are friends with the family, then you can hang out together, but i dont think that if you were strangers before, you should just get visitation, just like that.



now, if you and the family have become close, then maybe, they will let you come over to see the child, but i dont think that they owe it to you, and that if they dont want to, then they dont have to. they already paid you for your services... no be gone...
no...she agrees to hold the baby to term then give it to the parents.
absolutely not.
No - that's not the deal that gets made when someone agrees to be a surrogate. The deal is supposed to be that from conception on the baby is not the baby of the surrogate at all, and the surrogate is just supposed to carry the baby for "the parents". If a surrogate isn't capable of doing this she shouldn't be a surrogate.
I think it depends on the situation. If the surrogate was a family member, then of course they should be allowed to see the child but if the surrogate was through a surrogate service, then no they should have any parental rights to this child.



It should be very similar to a sperm donor situation. When a man donates sperm he has no parental rights over any child that may come from his donation. Same rules should apply for surrogacy.
well, she knew that the baby wasnt going to be hers, that she would have to give it up when its born, she agreed to having the baby for someone else, so she knew what it pertained to. Seeing the child every now and then would be alright but not visitation rights.
No
Should automatically? No..but the there may be an agreement of both parties agree to it.
NOOOO,,,, its not her baby.
NOOOO, it's not their child. They are just carrying the other person's baby. There is no blood relation to the baby.
No, I do not. Because they are surrogate for a reason.
no because really that isnt her child.
absolutely not. she knows the "rules" going into it, and I think that puts absolutely too much strain on the child.



i think surrogate mothers are angels, i really do, but they should not be doing it to have rights to the baby after...they should have their own children in that case.
absolutely not. she knew what she was getting into in the first place! It is not her child, she has no rights to it. This is why most surrogates have to go through an intense screening process.
not if his bioparents are alive, or has relatives!!
No I don't , the surrogate was paid to have this child for someone else, therefore she gave her rights away for that child, all the surrogate does is carry the child so no I don't think they should have visitation because it is not their child.
its up to the MOTHER, if she wants the surrogate to have visitaion than ok, but i dont think it needs to be required,
As a matter of law, no.



Morally, maybe.
No it's not their baby.