ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the key unifying concept in the development and application of new reproduction technology has been the increasing commodification of life treating people and parts of people as marketable commodities. The issues that confront people in reproduction these days are indeed complex. They involve new technology, old technology and no technology at all. It confront the newer questions raised by prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion, by in vitro fertilization, by something chapter are calling "surrogate" motherhood, and it faces the older questions raised by adoption. This commodification process is very clearly seen in the notion of "surrogate" motherhood. There it talks openly about buying services and renting body parts as if body parts were rented without the people who surround the part, as if one could rent a woman's uterus without renting the woman. The chapter sees the commodification process enter al! Pregnancies, as society encourages the development of prenatal diagnostic technology.
