By Benjamin Lange. In my recent JME paper, Moral Parenthood: Not Gestational, I challenge the idea that the moral right to parent our biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilitates between a newborn and a gestational procreator. This issue is important because it addresses one […]
Category: Parenthood
If Marc is Suzanne’s father, does it follow that Suzanne is his child?
By Daniela Cutas, Anna Smajdor, Kristien Hens, and Emma Moormann According to the respondents in our study, the short answer is: not necessarily. We drafted a series of vignettes in which we explored the relationships between reproduction, genes, and parenthood. We wanted to understand the impact that the degree of genetic relatedness might have on […]
Mothers of today, mothers of tomorrow
By Emanuele Mangione Who are the “mothers” of today? It is common opinion that assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) changed motherhood forever, especially biological motherhood. Nowadays a child can have a single biological mother, that is someone who contributes both genetically and gestationally to their creation; two biological mothers, that is a genetic mother who […]