University of Zurich: Children Not Allowed – Sperm Donors and Surrogate Mothers
Share Nowadays, unwanted childlessness can often be overcome with various types of reproductive medicine. The list of options is long: in-vitro fertilization, sperm donation, egg donation or surrogacy. Some of these options are allowed in Switzerland while others are not, which means would-be parents may end up going abroad to fulfill their desire for children. But ought we be allowed to do everything possible to have children? When ethicists and lawyers in our liberal societies attempt to answer this question, their starting point and the pole around which all the issues revolve is the conce...