Exam 4: Reproductive Control

Joel Feinberg believes that children have an interest in being brought into existence.

lizabeth Anderson believes that the introduction of market values into the realm of human reproduction has the effect of harming children and degrading women.

One concern that has been raised about cloning is that it could be used to produce copies of whole individuals.

Elizabeth Anderson endorses the view that surrogacy contracts are expressions of female altruism.

The financial inducements associated with egg donation raises serious issues about informed consent.

Steinbock believes that if a practice is risky, foolish, or morally distasteful, then there is more than sufficient reason for it to be banned.

Proponents of assisted reproduction must show that people have a right to use it for it to be morally acceptable.

Carson Strong argues that human reproductive cloning is ethically wrong in each and every instance that we can think of.

Pregnancy is risky, and so surrogacy contracts are always exploitative.

Some critics charge that surrogacy is a form of prostitution.

Leon Kass believes that the repugnance that many people feel about human cloning itself shows that it is morally wrong.

Some critics of ART charge that it commodifies human life.

George Annas argues that the right to rear a child you have borne is a right of privacy.

Gillian Hanscombe believes that lesbians should not be given access to reproductive technologies to help them produce children.

It is undisputed that a sperm donor has no moral responsibilities towards any children that he fathers with his donated sperm.