Debating Surrogacy - Anca Gheaus

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Résumé :

• 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