New Zealand's Approaches to Regulating the Commodification of the Female Body : A Comparative Analysis Reveals Ethical Inconsistencies.
Assisted reproductive technologies
Bodily ownership
Commodification
HART Act
PRA
Prostitution
Sex workers’ rights
Surrogacy
Journal
Journal of bioethical inquiry
ISSN: 1872-4353
Titre abrégé: J Bioeth Inq
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101250741
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2023
06 2023
Historique:
received:
02
08
2021
accepted:
23
07
2022
medline:
19
7
2023
pubmed:
6
4
2023
entrez:
5
4
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In 2003 and 2004, Aotearoa New Zealand enacted two key laws that regulate two very different ways in which the female body may be commodified. The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA) decriminalized prostitution, removing legal barriers to the buying and selling of commercial sexual services. The Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (HART Act), on the other hand, put a prohibition on commercial surrogacy agreements. This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the ethical arguments underlying New Zealand's legislative solutions to prostitution and commercial surrogacy. While the regulation of prostitution is approached with a Marxist feminist lens with the aim to ensure the health and safety of sex workers, commercial surrogacy is prohibited outright for concerns of negative impacts on present and future persons. I ground the principles of each Act in their ethical foundations and compare these two against one another. I conclude that New Zealand's legislative approach to regulating the commodification of the female body is ethically inconsistent.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37017815
doi: 10.1007/s11673-023-10246-7
pii: 10.1007/s11673-023-10246-7
pmc: PMC10352395
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
315-326Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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