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Surrogate Motherhood, Rights and Duties: A Reply to Campbell

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In a recent article in Health Care Analysis (Vol. 8, No. 1),Campbell misrepresents our specific arguments about commercialsurrogate motherhood (C.S.M.) and our general philosophical andpolitical views by saying or suggesting that we are `Millsian'liberals and consequentialists. He gives too the false impressionthat we do not oppose, in principle, slavery and child purchase.Here our position on C.S.M. is re-expressed and elaborated uponin order to eliminate possible confusion. Our general ethical andphilosophical framework is also outlined and shown to be otherthan Campbell says that it is. In particular, a moral philosophythat it is based on neither consequentialism nor Kantianism ispresented. C.S.M., it is argued, is not child purchase. It is like it insome respects and unlike it in others. It is unlike it in therespects which, relative to the present discussion, matter.

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  1. Division of Sociology and Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland

    Hugh V. McLachlan

  2. Fraser of Allander Institute and Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

    J.K. Swales

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McLachlan, H.V., Swales, J. Surrogate Motherhood, Rights and Duties: A Reply to Campbell. Health Care Analysis 9, 101–107 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011359113000

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