1. Goodman uses her article "Womb for Rent-For a Price" to make a claim that the surrogacy business is pushing the limits on boundaries. It's become a trend for international surrogacy and Goodman believes this is coming too close to "selling our children." She uses examples of Indian woman, becoming surrogate mothers to make a decade's worth of money they would get working otherwise. She also quotes a woman saying, "We give them a baby and they give us much-needed money."
2. I think anything that has to do with babies automatically has an appeal to pathos. She gives examples of Army wives and poor women. Talking about selling babies for money just gets an emotion from me, I'm sure it does for most people.
3. I asked myself "what is the writer's purpose". I feel like it's to discourage surrogacy.
4. I didn't like the negative word choices Goodman used or the way she was extreme. Comparing surrogacy to "slavery" or "selling children" is an extreme comparison and could be viewed as problematic.
I didn't agree with her word choice as well. Much too harsh to compare slavery and surrogacy. She could have chose a much less controversial topic.
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