**Warning: This post contains strong language.**
Good Morning America is doing a story on a surrogacy gone wrong tomorrow. This story has been played out on some of the surrogacy boards and I'm sorry I'm just done with it!
Why is it that only the bad surrogacy stories are shown on the news?
Seriously?
There are literally thousands of good surrogacy stories but even when some of the good surrogates are put on the news they try to twist their words around to make them sound crazy. If a woman does more than one surrogacy the news tries to say that she's only doing it for the money, or that she has some sort of mental disorder. Are you fucking kidding me? Is there something mentally wrong with me because I decided that I wanted to help one more family? Am I money grubbing bitch because I ask for compensation for my pain and suffering?
Seriously?
I understand that negativity sells newspapers, and that more people will tune in if the story is sensationalized, but in this day and age, don't you think that people need the positive stories? Why don't we focus on the neighbor who saved the older gentleman from a burning house last night? (This actually happened last night in San Antonio...but it only got a blurb in the news.) Or how about the fact that when someone's house burnt down, the local school banded together and collected donations (both monetary and household goods) to help the family? (This happened to my neighbors several doors down...and it was my children's school that collected for them.)
Maybe I'm hormonal but it's about damn time that someone focuses on the positive of surrogacy. I do not want, and have never wanted, to keep the children I have carried. This little boy I carry now already has a mom and dad...why the hell does he need me? (Other than to carry him for the first 40 weeks of his existence.)
I've already posted to GMA's Facebook and said that I'm saddened by the fact that they never accentuate the positive. I'm half tempted to give them my blog address and tell them this is how a good (dare I say great?) surrogacy goes. Quit rewarding bad behavior and making a bad situation worse...start showing the good too.
2 comments:
I hear you hun! I have another blog and try to only cover the good news on Surrogacy and Egg donation! Those kind of stories are far and few between!
I think you are amazing! ;) And not the least bit crazy! (Well maybe the surplus of meds we have to be on makes us coocoo.. but not for long)! lol
Ooh I hate that! I could never understand why horrible news is always the best news! I love to hear stories about good things and good people... This is why I hardly ever watch the news! It makes me so sick and sad... Every other story is, some baby was beaten, a woman was raped, some asshole set fire to a church... It's all so sad!
There are plenty of good things that happen, but it almost never makes the news!
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