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I think it's important to emphasize that in this context there's an explicit mention of scale. Surrogacy as something of the future. Almost as an institution. F
by jahaja 8y ago
I think it's important to emphasize that in this context there's an explicit mention of scale. Surrogacy as something of the future. Almost as an institution. For this scale to be possible, an exploitative relationship between the buyer and seller is required. It's a prerequisite. Otherwise there wouldn't even be a mention of it, since it would be at the negligible scale of a friend or family member donating a kidney to a loved one.
- marvin 8y agoI don't think an exploitative relationship is implied or required here, but it's certainly a big danger (probably the biggest) one would have to be super alert for if this was to be performed at any scale (which exists already, by the way). E.g., I heard that Minnesota has some sort of routine in place for voluntary surrogacy, which costs the adoptive parents on the order of $100k, of which only ~25k goes to the birthing mother. (A large part of the cost is administration and health checkups/treatment/insurance). It doesn't sound right to me that only 25% of the proceeds should go to the star of the show, so to speak. But this doesn't imply that it is impossible to do this ethically. Regulation that's well thought-out, as well as a sound, pre-existing social welfare net, is critical.