Law & Courts
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Surrogacy Contracts Cannot Make a Pregnant Woman Stop Owning Her Body
Source context Two disputes involving Black surrogates raise difficult questions about contracts, parentage and bodily autonomy. Surrogacy is built around a contract, but pregnancy is not a normal commercial performance. A contract can assign financial obligations, expectations and parentage. It cannot make the physical reality of pregnancy happen anywhere except inside a person’s body. That…
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Surrogacy Contracts Cannot Make a Pregnant Woman Stop Owning Her Body
Source context Two disputes involving Black surrogates raise difficult questions about contracts, parentage and bodily autonomy. Surrogacy is built around a contract, but pregnancy is not a normal commercial performance. A contract can assign financial obligations, expectations and parentage. It cannot make the physical reality of pregnancy happen anywhere except inside a person’s body. That…
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Surrogacy Contracts Cannot Make a Pregnant Woman Stop Owning Her Body
Source context Two disputes involving Black surrogates raise difficult questions about contracts, parentage and bodily autonomy. Surrogacy is built around a contract, but pregnancy is not a normal commercial performance. A contract can assign financial obligations, expectations and parentage. It cannot make the physical reality of pregnancy happen anywhere except inside a person’s body. That…