of allowing paid surrogacy.
Generally, it appears that any given feminist's opinion on surrogacy depends on that feminist's view of surrogacy according to the free market model or the prostitution model. Overall delineates these two different point of view. According to the free market model, surrogate motherhood is a service women offer to childless but fertile men and their infertile wives. However, Overall states that "[a]t the very least, the free market model for surrogate motherhood seems naive." She lists as among its problems, the commodification of babies; the high cost to the commissioning couple along with the low fee to the mother as unjust; and the exploitation of surrogate mothers who sell their services. She believes the support of surrogacy under the free market model is nonfeminist because it ignores the way in which women themselves might experience surrogacy and the real nature of the coercion and exploitation involved in the practice.
Overall supports the prostitution model of surrogacy because she believes it question
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