AN ARGUMENT AGAINST SURROGACY
P1. Surrogacy exchanges money for use of a woman’s body
P2. Anything which exchanges money for use of a woman’s body, objectifies women’s bodies
C. Therefore surrogacy objectifies women’s bodies
CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY
Ashley E. McGuire comments:
Even if the surrogacy industry did not rely on poor and vulnerable women and did not entail health hazards for the women involved, nothing can change the reality that at its core, surrogacy is the instrumentalization of the female body for profit. That fact cannot be papered over with contracts and laws or even the noblest of desires, a baby. Like the drive to legalize prostitution in the name of regulation, safety, and women’s choice, the drive to legalize surrogacy will do nothing but give legal sanction to the further objectification of women.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-debate-over-commercial-surrogacy-is-dividing-champions-of-the-sexual-revolution