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What does it mean to say there is something dehumanizing
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to make childbearing a market transaction?
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Well, one of the philosophers we read on this subject, Elizabeth Anderson,
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tries to brings some philosophical clarity to the unease that Andrew articulated.
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She said "By requiring the surrogate mother
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to repress whatever parental love she feels for the child,
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surrogacy contracts convert women's labor into a form of alienated labor.
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The surrogate's labor is alienated because she must divert it from the end
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which the social practices of pregnancy rightly promote,
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namely an emotional bond with her child.“
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So what Anderson is suggesting is
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that certain goods should not be treated as open to use or to profit.