Debating Surrogacy (Debating Ethics)

✍ Scribed by Anca Gheaus, Christine Straehle

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Table of 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
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
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
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
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