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    It is not the case that It is prima facie wrong to sever the relationship between a child and the gestational mother at birth

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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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    • 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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