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Shifting Surrogacy Laws and Legal Parenthood
Voices in Bioethics, 2015 Both international and domestic surrogacy suffers from a vast lack of legal regulation. Looking abroad, most countries do not possess laws that address surrogacy and, domestically, there are huge variances amongst the states. This lack of legalization or
Katarina Lee
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ETHICAL ASPECTS OF COMMERCIAL SURROGACY
Social Research Reports, 2020 Surrogacy is an initiated process, whereby intended parents wish to have a child by having an embryo carried in another woman’s womb and, after the birth, the baby is given to the intended parents. In Israel, giving birth and motherhood are perceived to great extent as a significant, essential and natural component of female identity and the existence ...
Racheli SILVERN, Stefan COJOCARU
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Labor of Care and Contracts: A Study of Surrogacy after the Transnational Ban in India
Qualitative Sociology ReviewCharacterized by the interplay of care and contracts, surrogacy is an exclusive form of gendered work. The paper is based on a micro-level ethnographic study exploring the lived and embodied challenges of commercial gestational surrogates in Gujarat ...
Ruby Bhardwaj
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Ethical context of legally regulated surrogate and genetic motherhood in Russia
Акушерство, гинекология и репродукция, 2021 Aim: to assess the compliance of legal norms regulating surrogate motherhood and moral concepts about motherhood and childhood in society.Materials and Methods.
I. V. Siluyanova
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Contractual Transaction: How Renting a Uterus Makes the Human Body a Commodity in Nepal
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2015 The issue of surrogate motherhood has started public debates in Nepal. With surrogacy a child becomes the object of a legal transaction, while the surrogate mother is used, in effect as an incubator, and the hospital declares commissioned parents’ name ...
Madhusudan Subedi
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Surrogacy relationships: a critical interpretative review
Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Based on a critical interpretative review of existing qualitative research investigating accounts of ‘lived experience’ of surrogates and intended parents from a relational perspective, this article proposes a typology of surrogacy arrangements.
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne +2 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines earnings trajectories of male same‐sex couples around the time they become parents in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden: three forerunners in advancing same‐sex couples' legal rights but with different family policy frameworks.
Weverthon Machado +3 more
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, 2019 In 2010, the Hong Kong public was shocked by media reports of Peter Lee, son of renowned tycoon Lee Shau Kee, and the triplets born to him in the United States through a surrogate mother.
Cheung, TMD
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Legitimation of Commercial Surrogacy in Russia
Journal of Economic Sociology, 2016 In modern life commodification has become a widespread phenomenon. A prime example of unique object commodification is commercial motherhood surrogacy motherhood, within which maternity turns from “the women’s social mission” into a service where human life is a final product of monetary transaction.
Anastasiya Dushina +3 more
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The uncomfortable science in the womb: How biological experience disrupts surrogacy narratives
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The discourse surrounding surrogacy portrays pregnancy as a temporary process, depicting surrogates as neutral “carriers” whose involvement concludes at birth. This narrative minimizes gestation's biological significance despite evidence of its lasting effects on both women and children.
Orit Chorowicz Bar‐Am +2 more
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