Dr. Seow Hon Tan is Associate Professor of Law specializing in legal philosophy at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on surrogacy, euthanasia, abortion, natural law theory, and legal education. She holds an SJD and an LLM from Harvard Law School, where she was a Byse Fellow and a Landon Gammon Fellow, and an LLB from the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Justice as Friendship: A Theory of Law.
Surrogacy arrangements are not in the best interests of children. When thinking about whether to legalize surrogacy, policy makers should consider the epigenetic effects of pregnancy, the loss to the children arising from separation from their birth mothers, and the special challenges associated with parenting by commissioning parents.
Date posted: 2021-02-22