Surrogate motherhood
By: Martha A. Field.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.; Contracts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : Surrogacy contracts.; title: Are the contracts illegal?; title: Exploiting women and commercializing childbearing; title: Do new reproductive techniques threaten the family?; title: Constitutional arguments for and against; title: Making surrogacy contracts unenforceable under contract law; title: Integrating surrogacy with laws governing adoption; title: Giving the mother the right to renounce the contract; title: Part 2 : Custody contests independent of the surrogacy contract.; title: Rules affecting biological parents' claims to children; title: Custody contests to determine the better parent; title: Conclusion