ABSTRACT
The consequences of the new technologies for the psychology of women and children and the future creation of culture are open questions. Should the technologies succeed in taking reproduction out of the body altogether, it remains to be seen whether women gain in freedom, or whether this simply fulfil the age-old misogynistic fantasy of depriving women of their central place in procreation. Fatherhood without motherhood has been the desire behind these fantasies. It is a common belief among feminists now that the new technology with its in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer was designed less to help the infertile than to appease men's envy of women's reproductive power. Surrogacy gives a man the opportunity to buy a womb of his own, without any concern for the woman to whom it is attached. The possibilities for exploitation of economically deprived women for surrogacy, both here and in the third world, whether by married or single men, are great.
