Surrogate Motherhood: The Legal and Human Issues, Expanded Edition

By Martha A. Field

Book Overview

Expanded

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674857496
• ISBN13: 9780674857490
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Policy Guidance about Surrogacy

This is by far the best book on the subject of surrogate motherhood. It explains why it should not be criminal to enter into a contract for a woman to bear a child for a couple, but that the birth mother can keep the child if she wishes, as with adoption. Most states and countries follow this approach in practice, but they often describe it differently from Field,as she illustrates in her appendix in the 2d edition.Anyway, a great and thoughtful read. Also entertaining -- full of anecdotes and written so that any interested person can understand the policy arguments and Field's convincing proposal for their resolution.Junior high and high school students love it as well as the older. A frequent subject in high school debates.