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- Title
What Money Shouldn't Buy.
- Authors
Sandel, Michael J.
- Abstract
This aticle discusses the moral limits of markets, whether there are some goods that should not be bought and sold, and if so, why? Rampant commodifcation, commercialization and privatization of contemporary life give good reason to reconsider moral bounds of markets. Commercial surrogacy, a $40 million industry in the U.S., is big business. Professional baby brokers advertise for couples who want a child and also for women willing to give birth through artificial insemination for pay. Like all commercial contracts, surrogacy promises benefits to both parties. Infertile couples can acquire a baby who bears the genetic imprint of the father and raise it as their own. Surrogate mothers, meanwhile, can earn $10,000 for nine months work.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SURROGATE mothers; COMMODIFICATION; BUSINESS; COMMERCIALIZATION; HUMAN artificial insemination
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2003, Vol 5, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Article