The Agora Speaker Series is hosted by the School of Liberal Arts. Lectures presented as part of the series are free of charge and are open to members of the School of Liberal Arts, the University and the general public.
Agora Talk by Associate Professor Luara Ferracioli
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UOW Wollongong - Building 20 Room 4
Commercial Surrogacy as Illegitimate Work
Abstract:
Is surrogacy a form of legitimate work? Or does the nature of pregnancy and parenthood render surrogacy illegitimate? In this presentation I argue that the best strategy in defence of commercial surrogacy—which I call the “surrogacy-as-legitimate-work” strategy—relies on two implicit assumptions and that once we make them explicit, we are forced to see that commercial surrogacy inevitably leads to a conflict of core moral rights. As I hope to show, if commercial surrogacy is a type of work, it is work that cannot simultaneously protect the right of the surrogate mother to opt out and the right of the commissioning couple to exercise ultimate authority over the foetus.
Bio:
Dr Luara Ferracioli was awarded her PhD in 2013. Before joining the University of Sydney, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (from 2011-2012) and Princeton University (from 2012-2013), and an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam (from 2013-2017).