Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-229) and index.

Surrogacy and free occupational choice -- Surrogacy, autonomy and individual agency -- Surrogacy, commercialization, reproduction and parenting -- Surrogacy as work -- The intuitive case against surrogacy -- Parents, their rights, and the interests of children -- What is surrogacy? Three models -- Full Surrogacy with intending parents' gametes -- Harm to children? The challenge from the non-identity problem -- Conclusion : a respectful and humane form of surrogacy -- Where we agree : The interests of children -- Where we disagree : Relationships -- Where we disagree : the role of the state -- Where we agree : gestating for another -- Where we disagree : the women -- Where we disagree : the children -- Is Straehle's hybrid defence of surrogacy stable?.

"People have always used surrogacy, i.e. the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. Traditionally, this involved surrogates being (willingly or not) impregnated by the intending father through sexual intercourse. New reproductive technologies have made possible a new form of surrogacy, which has, over the past four decades, become an increasingly widespread practice. Nowadays, surrogacy usually has at least some commercial aspect and involves women consenting to carry babies for other people, sometimes conceiving with their own gametes, but more often than not using gametes obtained from the people who plan to raise the child, or by third parties"--