Womb For Rent- For a Price

In the article "Womb For Rent- For a Price", the author Ellen Goodman's main point discusses labor out-sourced "beyond our reach"; surrogate parenthood. The main place she talks about is India, where woman are paid up to $7000 to deliver a child to more wealthy couples who are unable. Goodman sees this as a positive for the surogate, earning "a decade's worth of women's wages", but from a moral standpoint "humanity is sacrificed to the economy and the person becomes the product".
Goodman also uses these claims to appeal to pathos, to appeal to the emotions of the audience of the article. As a reader you feel bad for the surrogate, knowing they really need the money and that this is a positive thing for them. Also its a positive that a couple who may not be able to physically produce a baby themselves are getting the opportunity to have a baby with half of their genes. But then Goodman plays on the aspect that this is like putting humanity literally in the economy; producing and selling humans. This concept seems a little strange. People shopping around for the cheapest price and such.
"What is the writer's purpose?". I think that Goodman wanted to inform people, give them a little background about the out-sourcing surrogacy, but she also wanted to enlighten people and open their eyes to the unmoralistic side of it. It doesn't change my perspective of the piece because I can relate to Goodman's view.
"Nevertheless, there is- and there should be- something uncomfortable about a free market approach to baby making. It's easier to accept serogacy when it's a gift from one woman to another. But we rarely see a rich woman become a surrogate for a poor family", was a line from Goodman that I agreed with and stayed with me. This out-sourcing surrogacy shouldnt be thought of as "a-okay", there should be something uncomfortable and wrong about it. I also agree that it is easier to accept surrogacy when it is is a gift from woman to woman, not a couple looking in poor countries for the cheapest price to have a baby. And the last line about the rich woman having a baby for a poor family is also mind churning because it is true. The less wealthy family, by a long shot, is doing the manual "labor", almost taken advantage of in my eyes.