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Ethical issues in gestational surrogacy.

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  • 1Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
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Gestational surrogacy separates procreation from sex, redefining motherhood and family. This essay explores the ethical issues of commercial surrogacy, comparing it to organ marketing and arguing it constitutes exploitation.

Area of Science:

  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Bioethics
  • Sociology of Family

Background:

  • Contraceptive technologies have separated sex and procreation.
  • New reproductive technologies redefine 'mother' and 'family'.
  • Distinguishes genetic, gestational, and social mothers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Examine ethical aspects of gestational surrogacy.
  • Analyze physician obligations in surrogacy arrangements.
  • Critically evaluate commercial surrogacy.

Main Methods:

  • Distinction between genetic, gestational, and social mothers.
  • Analysis of gestational surrogacy where surrogate has no genetic link.
  • Ethical and societal critique of commercial surrogacy.

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Main Results:

  • Gestational surrogacy involves a "womb for rent" model.
  • Commercial surrogacy parallels organ transplant marketing.
  • Surrogacy is framed as exploitation of the poor.

Conclusions:

  • Gestational surrogacy raises profound ethical questions about parental rights versus exploitation.
  • Commercial surrogacy is ethically problematic, akin to prostitution and slavery.
  • Proposes a provocative question about utilizing women in PVS for surrogacy, pending written consent.