Debating Surrogacy (Debating Ethics)

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