Valuing motherhood: A case for legalizing market in babies

As many countries debate on the legalization of surrogate contracts, this paper analyses the ethical objections involved therein to seek the intervention of law thereto. The role of developing economies like India in the commercial surrogacy sphere is increasing by the day, mainly because the potential cost involved in entering into surrogacy contracts is relatively low in India especially when compared to the costs prevalent in the United States and United Kingdom. The opponents of surrogate practices would doubt the fact about surrogate mother freely exercising her rational capacities inasmuch as they would argue that surrogacy arrangements are mainly targeted at poor and vulnerable group of women who are coerced into such arrangements through monetary incentives that baby markets offer.