Surrogate Motherhood /

Surrogate Motherhood / / Martha A. Field.

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A practice known since biblical times, surrogate motherhood has only recently leaped to prominence as a way of providing babies for childless couples--and leaped to notoriety through the dramatic case of Baby M. Contract surrogacy is officially little more than ten years old, but by 1986 five hundre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Field, Martha A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1990
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. SURROGACY CONTRACTS
  • Chapter One. Are the Contracts Illegal?
  • Chapter Two. Exploiting Women and Commercializing Childbearing
  • Chapter Three. Do New Reproductive Techniques Threaten the Family?
  • Chapter Four. Constitutional Arguments For and Against
  • Chapter Five. Making Surrogacy Contracts Unenforceable under Contract Law
  • Chapter Six. Integrating Surrogacy with Laws Governing Adoption
  • Chapter Seven. Giving the Mother the Right to Renounce the Contract
  • PART II. CUSTODY CONTESTS INDEPENDENT OF THE SURROGACY CONTRACT
  • Chapter Eight. Rules Affecting Biological Parents' Claims to Children
  • Chapter Nine. Custody Contests to Determine the Better Parent
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Current Legal Status of Surrogacy Arrangements
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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