Blog commentary

Referring to Jeremy Su's blog (http://www.acidic-fiery-salamander.blogspot.com/) entitled "Giving Birth to Your Sister-Right or Wrong?", I would like to write a commentary.

The blog is regarding a controversial decision of a Canadian mother to donate her eggs to her daughter, who is suffering from Turner's syndrome, rendering her unable to develop eggs.

Jeremy believes that her decision to donate eggs has been unethical and believes that her decision has turned motherhood into merely conceiving and getting pregnant. To this point I may not agree. She has given her daughter a chance to give birth to a child and that alone is wonderful. It is true that giving birth to one does not make you an automatic mother, such is the case of surrogate mothers, but caring for the baby after birth as if the baby was fully yours, i believe, is one of the biggest parts of motherhood. Therefore, her actions of donating eggs does not confine motherhood to conceiving, but instead broadens its definition and does not confine the term 'mother' only to those who have a genetic child.

Another point raised by Jeremy is that the interestes of the child has not been taken fully under consideration as the child would possess reasonable messes up ties with other family members. This i would have to argree on. A child born of this method would acquire incorrect family ties. Such is this case as she and her "mother" have genetic makeup of that of a half-sister. Yet, there exist an age gap and she would grow up to know her genetic sister as 'mother'. This poses a problem when the child grows up to know her origins. The truth cannot be hidden from her throughout her lifetime.

However, I see many possibilities and benefits to this method. Just a Jeremy mentioned, this allows people cursed with such conditions to experience the miracle of childbirth and actually have a child to call your own. I believe that this method is a middle ground between having your own baby and adoption that has yet to be accepted by society as ethical and acceptable.