PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - A van Niekerk AU - L van Zyl TI - The ethics of surrogacy: women's reproductive labour. AID - 10.1136/jme.21.6.345 DP - 1995 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 345--349 VI - 21 IP - 6 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/6/345.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/6/345.full SO - J Med Ethics1995 Dec 01; 21 AB - The aim of this article is to establish whether there is anything intrinsically immoral about surrogacy arrangements from the perspective of the surrogate mother herself. Specific attention is paid to the claim that surrogacy is similar to prostitution in that it reduces women's reproductive labour to a form of alienated and/or dehumanized labour.