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Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 8, November 2026.ABSTRACT Informal donor conception (IDC) has an ambiguous status under UK law. Whilst not illegal, it is discouraged by regulators and only partially recognised in attributions of legal parenthood. In this paper, we analyse IDC as a lens to explore the politics of reproductive signification.
Leah Gilman, Alexus Davis
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Acting on the Voicelessness Challenge to Democratic Deliberation: A Six‐Actor Framework
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 1000-1008, November 2026.ABSTRACT Political philosophers have long recognized that key stakeholders in policy decisions—children, future generations, nonhuman animals, and individuals with severe cognitive impairments—are structurally unable to participate in the deliberative processes meant to legitimate those decisions.
Julian C. Jamison
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EXAMINING LEGAL REGULATIONS OF THE SURROGACY INSTITUTION: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK AND ONGOING CHALLENGES [PDF]
Journal of International Legal CommunicationThis article examines the legal and ethical complexities of surrogacy, highlighting the need for consistent legal frameworks to protect the rights of all parties involved.
Parvina Fazail Ismayilova
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2019 In the early 2010s, transnational surrogacy was a hotly debated topic in Norway following Norwegian citizens’ repro-migration. One of the oft-repeated policy proposals in the debate was to criminalise transnational surrogacy in the same fashion as the ...
Ingvill Stuvøy
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Mothers by contract: the moral and regulatory maze of surrogacy
Journal of Perinatal MedicineSurrogacy is a complex and evolving practice that sits at the intersection of reproductive medicine, ethics, law, and social policy. This comprehensive review traces the historical, medical, and ethical foundations of surrogacy, from its roots in early ...
Bentov Yaakov, Schenker Joseph
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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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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionMayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is rare condition that has a negative impact on quality of life because affected women lack a uterus and vagina, and are therefore unable to engage in sexual intercourse and experience natural ...
Thanh T. Q. Le +5 more
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PLoS ONEBackgroundSurrogacy involves a woman who consents, before conception, to carry and deliver a child for individuals or couples unable to do so due to biological or medical limitations. This complex process encompasses medical, ethical, legal and financial
Malene Tanderup +5 more
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