One step forward or one step back? Autonomy, agency and surrogates in the Indian Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019
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DOI: 10.1017/s174455232100001x
Abstract: Abstract The Indian government has recently introduced legislation to regulate ‘altruistic’ surrogacy while banning ‘commercial’ surrogacy amidst the criticism that India has become the ‘baby factory’. In the past decade, academic discourse has raised socioethical… read more here.
Keywords: commercial surrogacy; surrogacy; bill; family ... See more keywords
Valuing Women’s Labour: Some Notes on the ‘Compensated’ Model of Surrogacy
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DOI: 10.1177/09731741221097576
Abstract: Commercial surrogacy is India is currently practised amid an ambiguous, uncertain legal landscape. The article is set predominantly against the backdrop of surrogacy in India following the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill of 2016, currently passed by… read more here.
Keywords: commercial surrogacy; article; compensated model; model surrogacy ... See more keywords
The Ultimate Argument. Evoking the Affective Powers of ‘Happiness’ in Commercial Surrogacy
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DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2018.270202
Abstract: This article explores how the notion of happiness is employed in order to obscure the moral ambiguity and intimate uncertainties of commercial surrogacy. My ethnographic data elucidate the ways in which surrogacy agents and other… read more here.
Keywords: argument evoking; ultimate argument; argument; surrogacy ... See more keywords