Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE WHAT MAKES A MARKET? EFFICIENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND RELIABILITY OR GETTING THE BABIES WE WANT
- PART TWO SPACE AND PLACE: REPRODUCING AND REFRAMING SOCIAL NORMS OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND OTHERNESS
- PART THREE SPECTRUMS AND DISCOURSES: RIGHTS, REGULATIONS, AND CHOICE
- PART FOUR THE ETHICS OF BABY AND EMBRYO MARKETS
- PART FIVE TENUOUS GROUNDS AND BABY TABOOS
- Author Bios
- Index
PART FOUR - THE ETHICS OF BABY AND EMBRYO MARKETS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE WHAT MAKES A MARKET? EFFICIENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND RELIABILITY OR GETTING THE BABIES WE WANT
- PART TWO SPACE AND PLACE: REPRODUCING AND REFRAMING SOCIAL NORMS OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND OTHERNESS
- PART THREE SPECTRUMS AND DISCOURSES: RIGHTS, REGULATIONS, AND CHOICE
- PART FOUR THE ETHICS OF BABY AND EMBRYO MARKETS
- PART FIVE TENUOUS GROUNDS AND BABY TABOOS
- Author Bios
- Index
Summary
The Brave New World no longer is just fiction. A grandmother in South Africa gives birth to her own grandchildren. An Australian judge orders that two frozen embryos “orphaned” when their millionaire parents are killed in a plane crash must be thawed and brought to term if a surrogate mother can be found. In the U.S., a daughter plans to become pregnant, have an abortion and donate the fetal tissue to save her ailing father's life.
– Stephen Budiansky et al., U.S. News & World Rep., April 18, 1988In Part Four, authors expand the discourse on baby markets to embryo and stem cell selling. They unpack contemporary debates on the topic, revealing the gaps in congressional and state discourses. They expose the irony in a legal system that ignores and refuses to regulate assisted reproductive technology, and yet is hostage to special interest groups on the issue of stem cell research and technology. These chapters challenge us to think about the appropriate legal response to stem cell usage. More important, they remind us of the unique role the contributor – the embryo maker – plays in these public discourses and whether she should be paid for her services.
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- Baby MarketsMoney and the New Politics of Creating Families, pp. 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010