Ethics of Outsourcing Pregnancy to India - Michael Sandel

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/20/Michael_Sandel_on_Markets_and_Morals

Political philosopher Michael Sandel analyzes the moral implications of using poor women in developing countries like India as commercial surrogate mothers. Sandel challenges the audience to debate the ethics of outsourcing surrogacy as a profitable business.

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Harvard Professor Michael Sandel deliveres a speech titled "Markets and Morals" as part of the Chautauqua Institution 2009 Summer Lecture Series. He tackles some of economics' toughest ethical questions, such as the business of commercial surrogacy and the price of citizenship. - Chautauqua Institution

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980.

He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1997; translated into eight foreign languages), Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Harvard University Press, 2005), and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007).

His writings also appear in general publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times.

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[Immagonko]

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[OaklandAthletics53]

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[undercovercop4]

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[Bud7205]

@fuck192ass They won't be identical of course, but they would act as if they were siblings if raised together, as well as have the same morals. Just because he or she would have a different skin color, doesn't mean they would be any different if raised in the identical house as a white kid.

[Bud7205]

@fuck192ass But how does a baby from them or us make any difference if it is raised by the same people?

[Bud7205]

@rocknotes Umm? Crazy much?

[Bud7205]

@fuck192ass Why not? They are the same as you or I.

[Bud7205]

@kji198045 And if the couple is gay or lesbian, then it is impossible to bring a child into the world. This is one of the many ways to get a child into the family. But, then again, since you seem to be a religious fanatic, gay and lesbian love is bad right?

[kji198045]

Having children is not a right but a privilege. If you can't bring a child into this world it means that that privilege has not been given to you by the Supreme Power. There is always a GOOD reason for that and usually that reason is that you have other purpose in this life, much more significant than mere procreation. Unfortunately, many people are too stupid to realize that and feel they simply MUST multiply like cockroaches NO MATTER WHAT. You are circumventing EXPLICIT directives from above.

[shodanxx]

@heikkuri

the tearing of the mother/child relationship is profoundly damaging for the mind of the mother

and the receiving mother does not have the extremely intimate bond than the delivering woman

you know how parents change on a fundamental level, well birthing women go through important physiological changes that help her bond with her child that the receiving woman does not have, in effect the child might be less loved? (but that last part is speculation)