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= Equality and commercial surrogacy = TABLE OF CONTENTS


 * 1) question
 * 2) Asymmetry
 * 3) forms of asymmetry
 * 4) conclusion
 * 5) citations

should surrogacy be commercialized?

In the chapter " Markets in women's reproductive labour " in the book Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale:The Moral Limits of Markets, we have discussed the idea of asymmetry in the market for commercial surrogacy, and the effects that this has on surrogate women.

Asymmetry is essentially the lack of equality .This asymmetry comes in different ways:


 * 1) male and female genetic material being seen as equal when it is in fact not Males donating/selling their sperm is seen the same as a women selling her body to carry someone’s baby . however there is a huge difference between the two which is control.
 * 2) women's reproductive labour is seen as any other type of labour and will     eventually be controlled With sperm donation, once it is donated the males contribution is over. He has no connection to whatever happens to his     sperm. In surrogacy, the women physically carries the baby for 9 months     and due to contracts, there is a degree of control that comes along with     the process which turns into control over the women's body. Women are told what they can/cannot do and what must be done after the baby is born. Their body becomes an object.
 * 3) this type of labour will reinforce gender stereo types gender stereo types have been something that women especially have had to face when getting out in the workplace. Contract surrogacy reinforces the idea of women being "baby machines" and their role as being a mother.

There is nothing wrong with a women wanting to be a surrogate, but all of these inequalities reverse the progress that women have made in terms of gender inequality, and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation in this market. it the begs the question, should surrogacy be commercialized?

In Pande Amrita's journal she points out "Feminists have denounced surrogacy as the ultimate form of medicalization, commodification and technological colonization of the female body, and as a form of prostitution and slavery resulting from the economic and patriarchal exploitation of women"

[1]Satz, D. (2010). Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale (Oxford: Oxford University Press), chapter 5: ‘Markets in women’s reproductive labor’, pp. 115-134.

Pande, Amrita, ‘‘At Least I Am Not Sleeping with Anyone’: Resisting the Stigma of Commercial Surrogacy in India’. Feminist Studies. .” 2nd ed., vol. 36, 2010, pp. 292–312.