| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Debating ethics |
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Debating ethics.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series -- Debating Surrogacy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Surrogacy Defined -- Surrogacy and the Law -- Ethical Issues Surrounding Surrogacy -- The Book -- PART I -- Defending Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour -- Introduction -- 1. Surrogacy and Free Occupational Choice -- 1.1. Why Is Freedom of Occupational Choice Important in Liberal Theory? -- 1.2. Two Justifications for the Right to Freedom of Occupational Choice -- 2. Surrogacy, Autonomy, and Individual Agency -- 2.1. Reasons for Limits: Harm to Self, Harm to Society, and Professionalization |
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2.2. Surrogacy and the Limits of Freedom of Professional Choice -- 3. Surrogacy, Commercialization, Reproduction, and Parenting -- 3.1. Surrogacy as Commercialization versus Surrogacy as Parenting -- 3.2. Surrogacy and Gendered Society -- 3.3. Surrogacy as Harm to Society: Applying Market Norms to the Family Sphere -- 4. Surrogacy as Work -- 4.1. Professional Requirements and Justifiable Limits -- 4.2. Surrogacy as Licensed Work -- Conclusion -- Against Private Surrogacy: A Child-Centred View -- Introduction -- 1. The Intuitive Case against Surrogacy |
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2. Parents, Their Rights, and the Interests of Children -- 2.1. General Assumptions -- 2.2. The Right to Become a Parent -- 2.3. Parents' Rights and Children's Interests -- 2.4. Two Caveats -- 3. What Is Surrogacy? Three Models -- 3.1. The Child-Trafficking Model -- 3.2. The Privately Arranged Adoption Model -- 3.3. The Provision of Services and Gametes Model -- 4. Full Surrogacy with Intending Parents' Gametes -- 4.1. Child-Centred Appeals to Genetic Connections and the Right to Parent -- 4.2. Appeals to the Gestational Connection |
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4.3. Creatures of Attachment: The General Impermissibility of Surrogacy Agreements -- 5. Harm to Children? The Challenge from the Non-identity Problem -- Conclusion: A Respectful and Humane Form of Surrogacy -- PART II -- What's in It for the Baby? Weighing Children's and Parents' Interests in Commercial Surrogacy Agreements. A Reply to Gheaus -- Introduction -- 1. Where We Agree: The Interests of Children -- 2. Where We Disagree: Relationships -- 3. Where We Disagree: The Role of the State -- Conclusion -- Women and Children First. A Reply to Straehle -- Introduction |
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1. Where We Agree: Gestating for Another -- 2. Where We Disagree: The Women -- 2.1. Humaneness -- 2.2. Justice -- 3. Where We Disagree: The Children -- 4. Is Straehle's Hybrid Defence of Surrogacy Stable? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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? |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2024 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023) |
| Subject |
Surrogate motherhood -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Straehle, Christine, author
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| ISBN |
9780190072209 |
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0190072202 |
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