What do we know about the women using their own bodies to help intended parents realise their dreams?
Surrogacy is frequently associated with trafficking in Mexico, but efforts to ban it only serve as fig leaves for not engaging with the structural problems women face.
Surrogacy is marketed by the idea that it will succeed where all methods of procreation have failed. But what happens when it doesn’t, and who pays the cost of failure?
As the Russian market for surrogates has grown, more and more women are signing on as a way to meet their financial goals. So why doesn’t our terminology reflect that?
Surrogate pregnancy is criticised as exploitative, yet the women involved tell a different story. Choosing to help create life for those ‘without choice’ is more altruistic than anything else.
Once a near-exclusive province of the elite, more couples in non-urban India are turning to assisted reproduction to have a child of their ‘own’.
Surrogacy is said to exploit vulnerable women and commodify the resultant child, but context is everything. Our new series explores the complex lived experiences of surrogates from around the world.
