PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Categorical Imperative, Surrogacy, Deontological Ethics
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Types of surrogacy: genetic and gestational (not your genes, just lending womb); commercial (get paid) and altruistic (do it as a favor) Surrogacy in canada is legal, but only altruistic, get paid as gift, pay for travel and vitamins etc. Commercial surrogacy: morally inappropriate it applies economic norms to reproduction. Reproduction involves people and an appropriate treatment of people would involve such values as love honor respect etc. (remember kant"s categorical imperative!) Reproduction involves parental rights and responsibilities which are anything but manipulative. Commercialization reproductive labour turns it, as well as the mother and the child into commodities objects for sale and buying. It also values reproduction inappropriately which leads to exploitation and inferior understanding of human flourishing everything turns out for sale. Anderson refutes all of them as invalid grounds. The biggest problem for anderson with commercial surrogacy : children are treated as commodities.