Considering i'm working i'm not sure to be able to make a volley of answer tonight, but if i can i will do, i'm not forgetting the previous argumented answers.
But first
I would like to thanks the force of liberal equal progress and freedom of exploitation for letting me see that.
Here a loobying poster for gay marriage in France. Since a large part of the population actually do care about this problem, loobyists are at work.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/kiloutouf.png
Here a short translation
Kiloutouf hire 5000 women from 16 to 30 years
* CDD (short contract) of 9 months
* At home work
* Full medical coverage
* perfect job for student ( beginners and unqualified welcome)
* A lot of free time
* Substantial payroll (variable according to productivity )
Even if it's " funny poster", it's somehow scary when it's come to ethics. This is renting a women uterus.
Is it any different from factory worker renting his arm, or from a prostitute ?
Does choosing a father/mother in a catalog and then renting someone else to bear the child is a form of human exploitation/trafficking as well as an ethical and moral abomination or is it perfect fine and it's part of the market of services ?
Is this progress ?
If the next step is growing baby in vitro artificial womb in labs. Will it be unethical or a part of progress as well ?
2nd information. For gay couple, China and Russia are closing their international adoption for country where homosexuals can adopt. The only choice left for them is Brazil, South Africa or US. Let just say it will be quite hard to have a children on international now.
Will it make artificial procreation more common ?
Let look at prices and business now.
A young child to adopt in agency cost around 30 000 $
Not enough cash but you don't wanna adopt a cheap african orphan ? Craft one yourself
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13460455 said:
Selecting a potential father for your children, it turns out, is not unlike shopping online.
"A lot of our clients typically want their donor to be at least 180cm [5ft 11in] tall and have blue eyes," says Peter Bower, director of Nordic Cryobank, who is showing me his database of sperm donors.
With ovul "donation" and sperm IVF cost : 4500 to 6000 €
The donator of the ovum receive at best 1000€
However it's may depend of the DNA.
A tall harvard student may receive up to 50.000 $
The cheaper ovum are down to 3000 $
For sperm the price vary as well.
from 45 to 600 USD depending of the type, in the exemple of the danish sperm bank
http://dk.cryosinternational.com/private-customers/price-list.aspx
http://www.conceiveabilities.com/
Look how those people are happy. Everything has a price now. Even a baby.
I would like your opinion, people. Is it normal ?