Question: Technology has brought us face to face with new and difficult issues, and merely consulting tradition will be of little use. Kantians will probably find the whole practice of surrogacy problematic since the birth mother is clearly being used as an incubator and not regarded as a rational actor. One could give a Kantian argument in favor of surrogacy on the basis that as long as there is no overt coercion and if the woman either is paid or agrees to donate her body and time for selfless reasons, then she is acting as a rational and autonomous individual. She is simply using her body like any manual laborer. Those Kantians who disagree with the practice are more likely to compare the practice to a clinical form of prostitution without the act of sex. One might wonder how one can think of the practice as prostitution given that sex is not involved, but those who do will point to the highly personal and invasive nature of pregnancy as the key analogical factors. Utilitarians are faced with very complicated utility calculations. The simplest calculation says that everyone benefits: the birth mother is given money and the contracting parents get a child they could not otherwise have. A ultilitarian argument against surrogacy could grant this simple calculation but then argue that the long-term consequences would be negative in one or more ways, such as commodifying what should be a noncommodifed part of life. Need Assignment Help?