Can pregnancy be a job? the ethics of commercial surrogacy
About this episode
The episode explores the ethical implications of commercial surrogacy and whether it should be considered a legitimate form of work.
Commercial surrogacy - the practice of paying someone to gestate your child and then hand it over when it's born - is banned in Australia, but it has its supporters. Defenders of commercial surrogacy argue that it should be legal for someone to receive payment for the labour of carrying a child, on the grounds that surrogacy constitutes a legitimate form of work. But are there some things that just shouldn't be for sale? This week we're testing the arguments.
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