Professor Deirdre Madden:

I agree. I also have four children. It is certainly not an easy role. I see that point and share a lot of those concerns. As I said a moment ago, if everybody else in the process is paid for their time, effort and expertise, it could be argued that not permitting the surrogate to receive payment could be considered to be exploitative and that it downplays and downgrades the very important role she plays in the process by bringing to term a much-wanted pregnancy and bringing a child into existence. It could very easily be considered to be exploitative to expect her to do that and to undertake that reproductive labour for nothing while everybody else is paid for their participation.