Selling Babies and Selling Bodies

Hypatia 4 (3):116 - 127 (1989)
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I will argue the free market in babies or in women's bodies created by an institution of paid surrogate motherhood is contrary to Kantian principles of personhood and to the feminist principle that men do not have-and cannot gain through contract, marriage, or payment of money-a right to the sexual or reproductive use of women's bodies.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1989.tb00595.x

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