“Why Should Brain-Dead Women’s Wombs Be Going To Waste?” The Horrifying Proposal Of Using Dying Women As Surrogates

For-profit surrogacy has been in the hot seat recently. While it can look like the only way out for some couples feeling trapped by infertility, the industry has sparked a number of conversations around ethics, often in light of fertility clinics manipulating or outright lying to women, or for preying on low-income women who feel they have no choice but to rent out their wombs to make rent. Now, some bioethicists are proposing an even thornier setup: using the still-living bodies of brain-dead women for the purpose of surrogacy.