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Selling Babies and Selling Bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Sara Ann Ketchum
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Abstract

I will argue the free market in babies or in women's bodies created by an institution of paid surrogate motherhood is contrary to Kantian principles of person-hood and to the feminist principle that men do not have—and cannot gain through contract, marriage, or payment of money—a right to the sexual or reproductive use of women's bodies.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Ethics and Reproduction , Fall 1989 , pp. 116 - 127
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Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

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