1. Goodman's main claim is that making babies has become commercialized through surrogacy. Especially international surrogacy, and this she claims "comes perilously close to" slavery and selling children (161).
2. Goodman appeals to pathos through her use of analogy and a specific example. She compares surrogacy to an industry where the baby is the product and the labor is the surrogate mother. Her example is of a surrogate in Anand, India. She used the money she made as a surrogate to pay for her son's heart operation. The analogy used functions as a way for Goodman to express her point that surrogacy dehumanizes people.
3. Goodman's style of writing, with her tone and language emphasize her points. Her point about people becoming a product is emphasized with phrases like "offshoring of jobs," "globalization of baby production"and "growth industry." (160) Goodman's argument does seem more convincing with her use of style.
4. The idea of womb rental is disturbing which is what the article is about, but what I found more memorable was this sentence. "For the production and delivery of a child, they will earn $5,000 to $7,000, a decade's worth of women's wages in rural India." (160) The most disturbing part of this to me was that these women made $5,000 to $7,000 a decade.
On your point you made in part 2 i dont think that the story of the woman paying for her sons heart operation was a specific dehumanizing point, but maybe the point she made about the women not forming any true feelings for the child they are carrying because they are not truly any part of them is a better example of what you were trying to say.
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