PHIL110B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gibraltarpedia, Surrogacy
15 Apr 2017
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A commercial surrogate is someone who is paid money to bear a child for someone else and terminate her parental rights. The modern market is characterized in terms of legal and social norms which governs the exchange of commodities. A commodity is something for which the norms of the market are appropriate for regulating it"s production. If moral principles prevent market norms from regulating it"s production and enjoyment, then it is not a commodity. Distributing something in accordance to market norms may fail to value it in an appropriate way. Slavery, market norms, not valuing the person in an appropriate way. Surrogacy, father pays lawyer to find surrogate mother, she becomes pregnant and carrys the child until born and then gives up parental rights transferring custody of child to father. The surrogate mother is forced to agree to not form a bond with the child.
