Avoiding legal pitfalls in surrogacy arrangements

Legal constraints of using surrogacy

Background and Purpose: Surrogacy is a new assisted reproductive technology requiring to be perceived based on the real experiences of surrogacy patients regarding its legal issues so that legislators are able to enact appropriate laws for such patients' safety. This study pursues the goal to examine the experiences of commissioning mothers and surrogates confronting legal issues. Methods: This...

Exploitation in International Paid Surrogacy Arrangements

Many critics have suggested that international paid surrogacy is exploitative. Taking such concerns as its starting point, this article asks: (1) how defensible is the claim that international paid surrogacy is exploitative and what could be done to make it less exploitative? (2) In the light of the answer to (1), how strong is the case for prohibiting it? Exploitation could in principle be dea...

A civil liberties analysis of surrogacy arrangements.

Avoiding OCL specification pitfalls

This paper discusses about teaching software modeling by using OCL specifications, in the context in which the web represents the main source of information. The raise of the interest for models induced a higher need for clear and complete specifications. In case of models specified by means of MOF-based languages, adding OCL constraints proved to be an interesting answer to this need. Several ...

Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls

One is not required to be a mechanical engineer to drive a car and, considering the advanced state of mechanical engineering, most people limit their interest in what lies “under the hood” to finding a competent mechanic. Users of evaluation, risk, and decision analysis tools that are based on classical decision theory should be aware that, as is demonstrated below, classical MCDA (multi-criter...