What Do Gestational Mothers Deserve?
This paper analyzes the following question: What do women deserve, ethically speaking, when they agree to gestate a fetus on behalf of third parties? I argue for several claims. First, I argue that gestational motherhoods moral significance has been misunderstood, an oversight I attribute to the fo...
| Published in: | Ethical theory and moral practice |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
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| RelBib Classification: | NCB Personal ethics NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Pregnancy
B Surrogacy B Desert B Gestation B Abortion B Childbirth |
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| Summary: | This paper analyzes the following question: What do women deserve, ethically speaking, when they agree to gestate a fetus on behalf of third parties? I argue for several claims. First, I argue that gestational motherhoods moral significance has been misunderstood, an oversight I attribute to the focus in family ethics on the conditions of parenthood. Second, I use a less controversial version of James Rachelss account of desert to argue that gestational mothers deserve a parent-like voice as well as significant care and support, conclusions that have implications for commercial surrogacy. Finally, I argue that we should not make requests of others when fulfilling them will lead others to deserve goods we cannot reasonably expect them to receive, and I conclude based on this thesis, what I call the strings attached thesis, that pro-life arguments in support of prohibitions on abortion commit their proponents to policies which they may not be willing to support. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9710-0 |