Spurred on by a conversation I had the day before, I was thinking yesterday about artificial insemination. Now, I’ve heard moral teaching about why the procdedure is immoral using dry, philosophical language. But yesterday, I looked at the procedure, and came to a realization that startled me.

Artificial insemination is morally equivalent* to prostitution.

If I lived in Nevada (outside of Las Vegas), it would be legal for me, in order to satisfy certain selfish desires, to do the following:

• visit an establishment that brokers sexual services (a brothel)
• choose an anonymous woman without forming a relationship with her
• purchase that woman’s sexual services through the agency of the establishment
• use those sexual services to satisfy my desire

Throughout the U.S., it is legal for a woman, in order to satisfy her selfish desire to have a child outside of wedlock to do the following:

• visit an establishment that brokers sexual services (a “fertility treatment center”)
• choose an anonymous man without forming a relationship with him

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• purchase that man’s sexual services throught the agency of the establishment
• use those sexual services to satisfy her desire for a child

Artificial insemination and prostitution are moral equivalents. So why, in this hypocritical American society, is one accepted and one scorned? Is it simply because one is new and the other age-old? Or is because men’s sexuality is icky, while a woman’s is always pure and uncorrupted? Either accept prostitution, and legalize it throughout the nation, or ban artificial insemination in the same states prostitution is banned. They should be treated the same, from a moral standpoint.

*Aside from morality, there are, of course, certain legal differences. One such is in the area of privacy. A prostitute’s privacy is protected. She has legal protections against her client if she did not want him contacting her. On the other hand, in Florida, a sperm-donor’s right to privacy has been deemed by the courts as being trumped by the right of the mother to receive child support for her offspring.

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