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.