Biomedical Ethics | Surrogate Motherhood is Ethical

One objection to surrogate motherhood—in which one woman bears a child for another—revolves around the issue of informed consent for the surrogate contract. In the following viewpoint,Wendy McElroy argues that claims that a surrogate mother is unable to give informed consent to her pregnancy are invalid. She contends that what opponents of surrogate motherhood are really objecting to is a woman’s financial gain from the procedure. McElroy is the author of XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography and Sexual Correctness:The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women.

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