ABSTRACT
The legal decisions surrounding contract pregnancies, often called surro- gae mother contracts, have been part of a process of defining parenthood, at least in legal terms, as being primarily about genetic parenthood. While there have been relatively few cases that directly test this point, those that exist are very suggestive. The rights and responsibilities associated with parenthood in this culture are, more and more often, being associated with being a genetic parent. Such an emphasis on the genetic as defining parenthood is deeply disturbing, in at least several different ways.
