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Reproductive Health, 2008 Surrogacy involves one woman (surrogate mother) carrying a child for another person/s (commissioning person/couple), based on a mutual agreement requiring the child to be handed over to the commissioning person/couple following birth. Reasons for seeking
Healy Clifford M, Sills Eric
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Entanglement of the Formal and Informal in Everyday Surrogacy Negotiations: The Case of Georgia
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2023 With surrogacy-friendly legislation and relatively affordable reproductive services, Georgia has become one of the centres of surrogacy worldwide. Despite the legality of surrogacy, the scarcity of legislation leaves this field largely unregulated ...
Mariam Darchiashvili +1 more
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Reconciling Surrogacy Adversaries Through the Embryo
Voices in Bioethics, 2015 Surrogacy is constantly in the news, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell,[1] the recent conviction of an owner of an American surrogacy company,[2] and the recent birth of Lucy Liu’s son via a gestational surrogate.[3] Like many bioethical ...
Katarina Lee
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Inequalities in (trans)national surrogacy
, 2022 Income disparity has become a mainstay of the international critique and public discourse on commercial surrogacy. Using existing empirical data, including our two respective field studies in India and the United States, we analyze surrogacy from a ...
Rozée, Virginie, Jacobson, Heather
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Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2021 In this paper, we draw on three ethnographic studies of surrogacy we carried out separately in different contexts: the western US state of California, the south Indian state of Karnataka, and the western Russian metropolis of St Petersburg.
Marcin Smietana +2 more
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Klass och (o)fria val i samtidens globala reproduktionslandskap
Kulturella Perspektiv, 2023 The number of Swedish children conceived through commercial surrogacy abroad are increasing and the media debate on surrogacy is heated. In the wake of this, the Swedish public sphere is being filled with personal narratives of individuals travelling ...
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Transnational surrogacy, when people travel abroad for reproduction with the help of a surrogate mother, is a heavily debated phenomenon. One of the most salient discourses on surrogacy is the one affirming that Westerners, in their quest for having a ...
Anna Arvidsson +2 more
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Surrogacy in India: A Legal Perspective
, 2021 Surrogacy has been a topic of discussion for quite some time now. Though this has been for various reasons, the underlying factor has always been parenthood and the human desire to beget children.
Dr. Shrutimala Goswami, Arunav Barua
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DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 2021 Surrogacy is a family building option for people unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy. In heterosexual couples seeking surrogacy, a woman who is not the intended father’s partner, facilitates this pregnancy.
Christina Weis
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A survey of judicial decisions concerning surrogacy disputes in Taiwan
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2018 Objective: Currently, Taiwan's Artificial Reproduction Act denies the legality of practicing surrogacy in Taiwan. The fact that numerous intended parents access surrogacy through fertility tourism or illegal practice leads to various types of disputes ...
Wan-Tsui Chiang, Tan-Yi Chou
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