...and different people and situations have different exigencies.
Surrogacy has many different aspects, so it depends which angle you're looking at it from. While it may have, like all good things, the potential to be abused and misused, it is an invaluable option for gay couples, older couples and couples with medical impediments...if having a baby is what will make them most happy.

As for adoption, what I have read corroborates with what Pilgram says. And the moot points are always 'healthy infants from healthy parents' and the waiting time.
And based on many conversations with people, I've realised that adoption just does not compare, in a lot of people's minds, with a baby created of one's own genes.
And that's a reality, whether one agrees or not.