Surrogacy

Medical Ethics - Teleological systems

Surrogacy

Surrogacy is when a woman conceives and carries for an infertile couple, and then surrenders the baby to the intended parents.

The surrogate's egg is fertilised through artificial insemination with the sperm of the father or the donor. 

During the procedure of surrogacy, the process of IVF is also involved. Therefore, ethical systems also have to consider their approach to this as well as the issues facing a third individual contributing to a relationship. 

Situation Ethics applied to surrogacy

Fletcher's agape love is treated as a superior when facing any moral decision. A correct moral action is the one that produces the most loving result. One of SE's four presumptions is personalism. Personalism tends to focus on the most practical outcome centres around people. Immanuel Kant agrees and states that people must be treated as an ends to a means never as a means to something else. In the Bible, John 4:20, states that "If anyone says "I love God", but hates his brother, he is a liar". This…