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New laws ban commercial surrogacy in India

Medico-Legal Journal, 2020
Surrogacy is a controversial issue and most particularly when well-known celebrities have used it. It is a boon for couples where normal pregnancy is not possible but can be used for commercial exploitation. The Government of India passed a law on surrogacy in December 2018, which introduced many changes to the pre-existing rules, in particular, it ...
Jsrg, Saran, Jagadish Rao, Padubidri
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Rethinking “Commercial” Surrogacy in Australia

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2014
This article proposes reconsideration of laws prohibiting paid surrogacy in Australia in light of increasing transnational commercial surrogacy. The social science evidence base concerning domestic surrogacy in developed economies demonstrates that payment alone cannot be used to differentiate "good" surrogacy arrangements from "bad" ones.
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Transnational Commercial Surrogacy

2016
Abstract With the emergence of assisted reproductive technologies, particularly in vitro fertilization, gestational surrogacy in which an woman can be hired to gestate the child of commissioning parents has grown into a multimillion dollar industry.
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The exploitation argument against commercial surrogacy

Bioethics, 2003
This paper discusses the exploitation argument against commercial surrogacy: the claim that commercial surrogacy is morally objectionable because it is exploitative. The following questions are addressed. First, what exactly does the exploitation argument amount to? Second, is commercial surrogacy in fact exploitative?
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Taming the international commercial surrogacy industry

BMJ, 2014
With no worldwide regulatory framework, south Asian countries are struggling to legislate to protect children born through “fertility tourism”—and the surrogates who carry them.
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Is Commercial Surrogacy Baby‐selling?

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1990
ABSTRACT This essay considers a common objection to commercial surrogacy on the grounds that the child is treated as a commodity for sale by the surrogate and the commissioning couple. I analyse one prevalent argument for the view that commercial surrogacy is a kind of baby‐selling, not service‐selling.
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(Mis)regulation – the case of commercial surrogacy

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2015
In the most recent attempt to regulate commercial surrogacy, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a notice altering the category of visa for foreign nationals entering into commercial surrogacy arrangements from "tourist" to "medical". Upon close scrutiny, it becomes clear that this measure is a far too hasty and unprincipled step.
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The Hasty British Ban on Commercial Surrogacy

The Hastings Center Report, 1987
While commercial surrogate parenting arrangements continue to flourish in the U.S., Britain has made it a criminal offense for third parties to benefit from surrogacy. Voluntary surrogacy, however, is still within the law. Banning commercial surrogacy while leaving voluntary surrogacy lawful seems neither logical nor fair.
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Becoming Gay Fathers Through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy

Journal of Family Issues, 2016
Based on eight interviews with Danish gay male couples and one gay man, who had or were planning to become fathers through transnational commercial surrogacy, I examine the ways the men form family subjectivities between traditional kinship patterns and fundamentally new forms of kinship and family.
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Problems of Commercial Surrogacy in India

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Surrogacy is beneficial for those parents who is not capable to conceive a pregnancy. Surrogacy is method of assist reproduction where intended parents work with a gestation surrogacy who will carry and care for the baby until birth. In surrogacy a married couple can hire a woman’s womb to have children.
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