Moral Aspects of Medical Technology (15)

Before we get into the question of genetic engineering, I want to come back briefly to the question of surrogate motherhood, a subject we have been discussing in the past few articles. In the course of our discussion of this subject, we had opportunity to notice a case which was pending in the New Jersey courts in which a mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, agreed to bear a child for William and Elizabeth Stern for $10,000. She was artificially impregnated with sperm from William Stern so that...