We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before
birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and
will continue to shift as a result of technology. Uterus
transplantation and ectogestation, and the novel modalities of
gestation beyond sex and beyond bodies that they potentially make
possible, raise unique conceptual problems that have received little
attention. _Biotechnology, Gestation and the Law_ presents the first
comprehensive ethico-legal analysis of the nature of gestation and of
technologies enabling gestation, offering a concept analysis grounded
in ontology, phenomenology, politics, and law. The first three
chapters develop a transdisciplinary approach for identifying and
exploring the ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation and
ectogestation. This addresses the ontological and legal confusion
about what gestation is, how we should classify procreative
technologies in relation to gestation, and why it is important to have
precise classification. The remaining chapters use this framework to
undertake a rigorous examination of pressing socio-legal implications
of uterus transplantation and ectogestation: who has access to
technologies enabling gestation and under what circumstances? Who
is/are the parent/s when novel forms of gestation are used? How do
these technologies disrupt our notions of reproductive biosex and are
they tools of emancipation from gendered roles? This book, and the
original conceptual lens it sets out, forges a new direction for legal
and social reform directed at addressing the harms of constructed
gendered procreative and parenting roles. In speculating about future
possibilities, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis brings visibility to the
oppressive propagation of biological essentialism that underpins the
contemporary regulation of human procreation, and considers how to
address this issue now and into the future.
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ISBN
9780198873792
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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