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    It is prima facie wrong to sever the relationship between... — Carmelics
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    It is prima facie wrong to sever the relationship between a child and the gestational mother at birth

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    • 1.The child and gestational mother are already involved in an intimate relationship at birth
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    • 2.It is prima facie wrong to sever intimate relationships
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    • 1.The wrongness of severing intimate relationships is grounded in the relational interests of both parties, not mere causal or biological connection.
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    • 2.A gestational mother who has consented in advance to relinquish the child has, through autonomous self-binding, transformed the normative structure of that relationship.
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    • 3.Therefore, pre-birth consent to relinquishment defeats the prima facie wrong before the severance occurs, not merely overrides it.
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    • 1.Intimacy sufficient to generate prima facie duties of non-severance requires reciprocal recognition and mutual responsiveness, as defended by Macmurray and later relational theorists.
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    • 2.The fetal-gestational relationship, while causally profound, lacks the reciprocal recognition characteristic of intimacy that grounds non-severance duties.
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    • 3.Therefore, the argument from intimate relationships does not straightforwardly apply to the gestational bond at the moment of birth.
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    Three main considerations are presented in favor of labor-based accounts. One focuses on the interests of the child. Where a child has been looked after by a person or people for some time, it is thought to be very damaging for her to be taken away from them (Archard 2004). In the case of gestation, since the gestational mother is guaranteed to be identifiable at birth, it may be thought in the best interests of the child that she be regarded as the mother (Annas 1984). Moreover, the child and g
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