Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India by Sayantani DasGupta

What role should the state play in providing individuals and families with access to reproductive technologies? This book concludes with a discussion of 'reproductive justice'. Gestational surrogacy challenges the idea of 'natural' reproduction and of the meaning of parenthood. A comparative analysis of the assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy industry in Egypt, Israel, India and the United States disentangles the intersecting roles of race, religion, class inequality, religious law, and global capitalism. This has resulted in a 'surrogate baby boom.' Outsourcing the Womb provides a critical introduction to the global surrogacy market. Third parties, referred to as surrogates are hired to assist individuals and/or couples who wish to conceive and child with whom they share a genetic tie. Asexual or 'assisted conception' involving medical technologies such as in vitro fertilization and embryo transfers began to replace sexual reproduction for infertile couples. In the 1980s infertility increasing became defined as a medical problem that could be solved with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) rather than through adoption.

The way that children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. What role should the state play in providing individuals and families with access to reproductive technologies? This book concludes with a discussion of reproductive justice'-A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. Gestational surrogacy challenges the idea of natural ' reproduction and of the meaning of parenthood. This book provides a critical introduction to the global surrogacy market.

Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India by Sayantani DasGupta