Double-donor surrogacy and the intention to parent.

Autor: Baron T; Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Bioethics [Bioethics] 2024 Sep; Vol. 38 (7), pp. 609-615. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 19.
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13204
Abstrakt: Assisted reproduction often involves biological contributions by third parties such as egg/sperm donors, mitochondrial DNA donors, and surrogate mothers. However, these arrangements are also characterised by a biological relationship between the child and at least one intending parent. For example, one or both intending parents might use their own eggs/sperm in surrogacy, or an intending mother might conceive using donor sperm or gestate a donor embryo. What happens when this relationship is absent, as in the case of 'double-donor surrogacy' arrangements (DDS)? Here, a child is conceived using both donor eggs and sperm, carried by a surrogate, and raised by the commissioning parents. In this paper, I critically examine proposals to allow DDS in the United Kingdom, and the intentionalist justification for treating this practice distinctly (morally and legally speaking) from private adoption. I argue that the intentionalist approach cannot plausibly justify such a distinction and that other approaches to moral parenthood are also unlikely to succeed.
(© 2023 The Authors. Bioethics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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