Part I Framing the discussion - the role of contract under hypothetical legal alternatives for ordering human reproduction: a definition of contract; the role of contract in two existing taxonomies of legal approaches to the new reproductive technologies; a unified field of analysis for the legal ordering of the new reproductive technologies; a taxonomy of alternatives in legally ordering the new reproductive technologies; summary - the diverse roles for contract in the legal ordering of the new reproductive technologies. Part II The role of contract in ordering reproduction under existing law and proposals for legal reform: the role of contract in the existing law of marriage; existing legal adaptations to the new reproductive technologies; the role of contract within the leading proposal for reform of the law of procreation; the role of contract in ordering procreation - the state of the legal question. Part III Normative evaluation of contract as a means of legal ordering for human reproduction: the basic societal choice posed by current developments in human reproduction; a normative evaluation of contract as a principle governing the basic human relationships implicated by the new reproductive technologies.
