Janice G. Raymond

In the following viewpoint, Janice G. Raymond contends that reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization and surrogacy are a form of violence against women because they technologically ravage women’s bodies. She maintains that regulating these procedures will not protect women’s integrity or prevent people from “renting” women’s reproductive organs. The only way to protect women from medical abuse and exploitation, Raymond argues, is to ban the technology. Raymond is the author of Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women’s Freedom ,from which the following viewpoint is taken.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How does a proprietary right to one’s body differ from a substantive right, according to Raymond?
2. In the author’s view, how do reproductive technologies demean...