SURROGACY

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SURROGACY

• Adelaide
• Kristin
• Jim
• Sharon

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INTRODUCTION

• After a bout with cancer, and a
  hysterectomy, a woman turns to a surrogate mother
  to help her realize her dream of becoming a
  mother.The surrogate is implanted with the
  womans egg fertilized by her husbands sperm.
  The couple spends a total of 36,000.00,
  including medical expenses, agency fees, and
  18,000.00 as compensation for the surrogate.
  Though the surrogate passed stringent psycolgical
  testing to ensure she was up to carrying another
  womans child, she announes just before the
  birth, that she has become too attached to her
  child and would have to rescind on their
  agreement. A legal battle begins.

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GROUPS CHARGE

• Present a moral argument that would solve the
  dilemma of the birth mothers right to void the
  contract, and the child being placed with whoever
  has its best interest at heart.

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PLACEMENT OF THE CHILD

• Based on John Stewart Mills principle of
  happiness, weighing intellectual pleasures vs.
  physical pleasures, custody of the child should
  be awarded to the parents.
• However as the child grows it should be allowed
  access to the mother, when assessing the quality
  of the pleasures anticipated, to allow for the
  childs individual growth and fulfillment.
• A free thinking and living individual cannot be
  used as a means to an end.

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JSM - UTILITARIANISM

• Utilitarianism is a teleological theory
• Actions are to be judged right or wrong solely by
  their consequences. Right actions are simply
  those that result in the best consequences and
  produce a better world.
• The right consequences are those that bring about
  more happiness and less unhappiness.
• The purpose of morality is to guide actions in
  such a way as to produce a better world
• Morality is about producing good consequences,
  not having good intentions
• We should do whatever will bring the most
  benefit (intrinsic value) to all of humanity
• Asks that you set aside self interest
• Always do the most to maximize utility

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ACT UTILITARIANISM

• Seeks the result of an action to assess whether
  the act is right or wrong. Act utilitarianism
  requires and assessment about the amount of pain
  or happiness that is related to each individual
  action.
• No general rules except for this
• It is the greatest good to the greatest number
  of
• people which is the measure of right
  and wrong.
• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

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RULE UTILITARIANISM

• Our duty is not to aim for that act which will
  produce in fact the best overall consequences but
  to follow that rule which would have the best
  consequences if generally followed.
• "It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a
  pig satisfied."
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

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CONCLUSION

• In the end this child has a moral right to
  happiness and this can be achieved through
  placing the child with its biological father and
  his wife but also allowing the child access to
  its mother as it grows.
• A free thinking and living individual cannot be
  used as a means to an end. With this theory in
  mind the happiness of either the biological
  father or mother cannot be achieved at the
  expense of the childs moral right to happiness.
• Since teleology is about producing good
  consequences and not about having good
  intentions, allowing the child access to both of
  its parents will provide the child with the moral
  right to happiness thus producing the good
  consequences.

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THANK YOU,

• Its been great!!