Motherhood Surrogacy: Progress or Exploitation?

The Global Exploitation of Surrogacy

Global surrogacy: exploitation to empowerment

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Exploitation in International Paid Surrogacy Arrangements

Many critics have suggested that international paid surrogacy is exploitative. Taking such concerns as its starting point, this article asks: (1) how defensible is the claim that international paid surrogacy is exploitative and what could be done to make it less exploitative? (2) In the light of the answer to (1), how strong is the case for prohibiting it? Exploitation could in principle be dea...

Status and contract in surrogate motherhood: an illumination of the surrogacy debate.

for their critical readings of earlier drafts of this article. Their suggestions have been incorporated throughout. I would also like to thank my colleague Leon Friedman, who served as counsel to Mary Beth Whitehead in connection with her appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court, for his generous assistance in providing me with invaluable research materials.

Views of Swedish Commissioning Parents Relating to the Exploitation Discourse in Using Transnational Surrogacy

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 child, exploit poor women in countries such as India. As surrogacy within the Swedish health care system is not permitted, Swedish commissioning ...