Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to
a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several
ethical questions, such as the commodification of the surrogate and of
the baby, and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have
been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on surrogacy,
by concentrating on questions which bear on its justifiability: Is
providing gestational services a permissible way of employing a
woman's body? Indeed, is it a legitimate form of work? Are the
children born out of surrogacy in any way wronged by surrogacy
agreements? In the first part of the book, Christine Straehle proposes
an account of surrogacy work as legitimate work for women, as a way to
realize certain goals in women's lives through the fruit of their
labour. She defends a right to become a surrogate as necessary to
protect women's autonomy. Anca Gheaus criticises surrogacy by arguing
that it always wrongs children--whether or not it also harms them--by
disrespecting them; therefore, gestational services are impermissible.
In the second part, Straehle responds to Gheaus, questioning that
children are wronged by the practice of surrogacy. Instead, she
defends an intentional model of parental rights, which indicates that
having a child through surrogacy should count as a ground to assign
parental rights. In her response, Gheaus objects that Straehle's view
fails to properly account for the interests of either surrogates or
children. However, she accepts that women may gestate without the
intention to have custody over the newborn, and is therefore open to
some kind of post-surrogacy practice that would radically depart, in
the allocation of legal parenthood, from any historical or currently
proposed form of surrogacy.
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ISBN
9780190072193
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic US
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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