Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rhythm Method, Harvard's newest music sensation, last week rocked its way to a berth in the finals of an East Coast college battle of the bands and a chance at a recording contract...
...contest's overall winner will receive $5000 in cash, a $5000 scholarship for its school, and a recording contract with the Nola Recording Studio, Wertz said. MTV is also considering airing the contest, she said...
There is a moral issue at stake here which easily supercedes all the politics "Feminists" and "the Church" can come up with. Supporters of surrogacy insists that a surrogate contract is no different from any other. You give me $10,000, I'll give you a baby. Think about that. You give me $10,000, I'll give you a baby. Most contracts make allowances, even, for the abortion of the fetus if it is medically imperfect; no one, after all, wants to buy defective merchandise. The surrogate mother promises "not to form or attempt to form a parent-child...
...fems and the Fathers agree that woman are, before anything else, females. Since childbirth is a defining aspect of femininity, a child cannot be alienated from its mother by so material an abstraction as a contract. But then the church and the feminists disagree: The Church uses this reasoning to oppose all forms of surrogate parenting, including in vitrio fertilization. The feminists merely oppose the notion of contracting for a baby. They say that a surrogate mother must retain the right to renege on the deal if she so pleases...
Does the bond of the surrogate mother really possess such moral weight? Here an analogy seems appropriate. If the surrogate mother's child cannot legitimately be taken from her by force of contract, what about an artist's creation? Can the work of an artistic genius be sold? Say a wealthy benefactor commissions a statue by some modern-day Michelangelo. In the process of creating a masterpiece, he grows so attached to the work that he cannot bear to part with it. Must...