Question

In 400 words, make an ethical argument either in support in surrogacy or against surrogacy. Make sure that you support your argument by both ethical principles?

Answer 1

Argument Against Surrogacy:

• Since the surrogate usually has no biological relationship to the child, she has no legal claim and the surrogate’s name does not appear on the birth certificate.
• A few of the many issues raised by surrogacy include:
• The rights of the children produced; the ethical and practical ramifications of the further commodification of women’s bodies
• The exploitation of poor and low income women desperate for money
• The moral and ethical consequences of transforming a normal biological function of a woman’s body into a commercial transaction.
• In surrogacy, the rights of the child are almost never considered.
• Transferring the duties of parenthood from the birthing mother to a contracting couple denies the child any claim to its “gestational carrier” and to its biological parents if the egg and/or sperm is/are not that of the contracting parents.
• In addition, the child has no right to information about any siblings he or she may have in the latter instance.

Hence, surrogacy is unethical.