{"id":10555,"date":"2021-02-16T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2021-03-05T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:52:21","slug":"how-surrogacy-arrangements-fail-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10555","title":{"rendered":"How Surrogacy Arrangements Fail Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public Discourse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seow Hon Tan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Surrogacy
Ad for surrogate mothers, Burbank, California, USA. Cory Doctorow, Flickr <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Surrogacy arrangements are in the spotlight<\/a> again. Recently, Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was accused by her former partner of abandoning two babies conceived through surrogacy in the United States. Apparently, she wanted the surrogates to undergo abortion when she broke up with him. But abortion was not feasible, as the surrogates were in the third trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surrogacy supporters tend to emphasize how much children are desired and valued by commissioning parents. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is surprising that the best interests of the child have been so neglected in debates over the ethics of surrogacy. After all, adoption and custody decisions focus on the best interests of the child. The truth is, surrogacy undermines the human flourishing<\/a> of surrogates and children. In this essay, I will lay out a few reasons why such separation is not in the best interests of the child, focusing particularly on what we can learn from relevant scientific data. These reasons suggest that lawmakers should not legalize surrogacy. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Discourse Seow Hon Tan Surrogacy arrangements are in the spotlight again. Recently, Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was accused by her former partner of abandoning two babies conceived through surrogacy in the United States. Apparently, she wanted the surrogates to undergo abortion when she broke up with him. But abortion was not feasible, as the … Continue reading “How Surrogacy Arrangements Fail Children”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,508],"tags":[4018,1089,4019],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reproduction","category-ethical-commentary","tag-seow-hon-tan","tag-surrogacy","tag-zheng-shuang"],"yoast_head":"\r\nHow Surrogacy Arrangements Fail Children - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Best interests of children have been overlooked in surrogacy debates. 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