SWA #5 Womb for Rent-For a Price

1.  Goodman is informing her audience of this "black market" of surrogacy that is becoming a common occupation for women around the world.  In India, the government actually sees this as a "growth industry."  Her main claim is that our world is so focused on the marketplace to the point where we are risking our own lives for wealth.  The marketplace is everyone's obsession and people will basically do anything for money, like becoming a surrogate mother.  I think Goodman is somewhat disappointed in the status of the world and is simply trying to let us all know of its existence.
2.  She makes great appeals to pathos by letting her audience see both sides of the argument.  Arguing against surrogate mothers, she says, "We cannot, for example, sell ourselves into slavery.  We cannot sell our children.  But the surrogacy business comes perilously close to both of these deals" (161).  Goodman also allows her audience to see a positive outcome to this occupation by saying, "A surrogate in Anand used the money to buy a heart operation for her son" (161).  She seems to show more support to the side that is against surrogacy, but at least she presents the other side as well by offering a legimate reason that a mother might succumb to surrogacy.
3.  How would this argument be received by different audiences?  This question doesn't really have much effect on my perception of Goodman's argument because I think she did a great job supporting both sides and not particularly expressing her opinion in a violent manner.  She lets the whole audience relate to the subject and allows them to see the other side as well.   Goodman does suggest that she is against surrogate mothers, but she doesn't harshly attack the side in support of them in her argument.
4.  In the article, Goodman mentions that women in third world countries get trapped into being surrogates because they are "illiterate" and fingerprint the contracts.  This is disturbing simply because I do not like to hear about people being taken advantage of, especially for something as serious as carrying  another's child.   At the same time, I am happy that the other mother was able to afford a heart operation for her son.  I understand that money is necessary to maintain a living, but I agree that surrogate mothers come "perilously close" to selling our children and ourselves to slavery.