Format:
vii, 235 Seiten
ISBN:
9780190072179
,
9780190072162
Series Statement:
Debating ethics
Content:
"People have always used surrogacy, i.e. the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. Traditionally, this involved surrogates being (willingly or not) impregnated by the intending father through sexual intercourse. New reproductive technologies have made possible a new form of surrogacy, which has, over the past four decades, become an increasingly widespread practice. Nowadays, surrogacy usually has at least some commercial aspect and involves women consenting to carry babies for other people, sometimes conceiving with their own gametes, but more often than not using gametes obtained from the people who plan to raise the child, or by third parties"--
Content:
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?
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 219-229 und Index
,
Surrogacy and free occupational choice -- Surrogacy, autonomy and individual agency -- Surrogacy, commercialization, reproduction and parenting -- Surrogacy as work -- The intuitive case against surrogacy -- Parents, their rights, and the interests of children -- What is surrogacy? Three models -- Full Surrogacy with intending parents' gametes -- Harm to children? The challenge from the non-identity problem -- Conclusion : a respectful and humane form of surrogacy -- Where we agree : The interests of children -- Where we disagree : Relationships -- Where we disagree : the role of the state -- Where we agree : gestating for another -- Where we disagree : the women -- Where we disagree : the children -- Is Straehle's hybrid defence of surrogacy stable?.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9780190072193
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Leihmutter
;
Ersatzmutterschaft
;
Ethik
;
Moralisches Handeln
