Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-007216-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction, Anca Gheaus and Christine Straehle
- Surrogacy defined
- Surrogacy and The Law
- Ethical Worries Surrounding Surrogacy
- The Book
- Part One:
- Defending Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour, Christine Straehle
- Introduction
- I. Surrogacy and Free Occupational Choice
- I.1. Why is freedom of occupational choice important in liberal theory?
- I.2. Two Justifications for the Right to Freedom of Occupational Choice
- II. Surrogacy, Autonomy and Individual Agency
- II.1. Reasons for Limits: Harm to Self, Harm to Society and Professionalization
- II. 2. Surrogacy and the Limits of Freedom of Professional Choice
- III. Surrogacy, Commercialization, Reproduction and Parenting
- III.1. Surrogacy as Commercialization vs Surrogacy as Parenting
- III.2. Surrogacy and gendered society
- III.3. Surrogacy as Harm to Society: applying market norms to the family sphere
- IV. Surrogacy As Work
- IV.1. Professional requirements and justifiable limits
- IV. 2. Surrogacy as licensed work
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Against Private Surrogacy: A Child-Centered View, Anca Gheaus
- I. Introduction
- II. The intuitive case against surrogacy
- III. Parents, their rights, and the interests of children
- III.1. General assumptions
- III.2. The right to become a parent
- III.3. Parents' rights and children's interests
- III. 4. Two caveats
- IV. What is surrogacy? Three models
- IV.1. The child-trafficking model
- IV.2. The privately arranged adoption model
- IV.3. The provision of services and gametes model
- V. Full Surrogacy with intending parents' gametes
- V.1. Child-centered appeals to genetic connections and the right to parent
- V.3. Appeals to the gestational connection
- V.4. Creatures of attachment: the general impermissibility of surrogacy agreements
- VI. Harm to children? The challenge from the non-identity problem
- VII. Conclusion: a respectful and humane form of surrogacy
- Notes
- Part Two
- What's in it for the Baby? - Weighing Children's and Parents' Interests in Commercial Surrogacy Agreements - A Reply to Gheaus, Christine Straehle
- I. Introduction
- II. Where we agree: The interests of children
- III. Where we disagree: Relationships
- IV. Where we disagree: the role of the state
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Women and Children First - A Reply to Straehle, Anca Gheaus
- I. Introduction
- II. Where we agree: gestating for another
- III. Where we disagree: the women
- IV. Where we disagree: the children
- V. Is Straehle's hybrid defence of surrogacy stable?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Index
