Transnational surrogacy and the earthquake in Nepal: a case study from Israel

Shalev, Carmel; Eyal, Hedva; Samama, Etti

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“…Such expanded pronatalism can sometimes even play into pro-nationalist concerns, as is the case in Israel, which wrote the world's first domestic surrogacy law at roughly the same time as a booming reproductive industrial complex was emerging there (Vertommen, 2017). This complex is so linked to the Zionist political project that Israel has made great efforts to accommodate citizens who fall outside the domestic surrogacy law (primarily gay men and single women) when they seek ICS arrangements (Shalev et al, 2017). 3 Other states that prohibit commercial surrogacy domestically have likewise shown themselves to be accepting of their citizens utilizing ICS (Allan, 2017).…”

Section: Trends In Surrogacymentioning

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Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy

Cheney

2021

Sociological Research Online

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Gestational surrogacy – carrying someone else’s baby (or babies) to term and giving birth to them – is perhaps one of the most intimate acts a human being can perform for others. However, the proliferation of commercial surrogacy has drawn concern and criticism, with many scholars arguing that it both creates and exacerbates global social and economic inequalities. Commercial surrogacy thus raises both the possibility of global intimate connection and the specter of reproductive exploitation. I therefore explore the various, shifting, and often discordant desires for intimate connection between the intending parent(s), the surrogate mother, and the resulting child(ren) in commercial surrogacy. I then examine how those intimacies intersect with commercial surrogacy’s socioeconomic inequalities. Weighing commercial surrogacy’s driving desires and intimate practices against its commercialization, I end with a reconsideration of the procreative desires and intimate practices that spur current international commercial surrogacy (ICS), urging an emphasis on reproductive justice.

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Section: Trends In Surrogacymentioning

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Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy

Cheney

2021

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“…Twelve of these children were placed in social services and the others remained with the surrogates. The following year, in 2015, after the earthquake that hit Nepal, there was the Israeli Government's attempt to rescue about 20 babies for Israeli same-sex couples, leaving behind other children and pregnant women (Shalev et al, 2017). The surrogates were transferred to Nepal from India, since the Indian Government had recently banned surrogacy for same-sex couples.…”

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An Introduction to the Problems of Surrogacy and the Demands from Civil Society

Bandelli

2021

Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy

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The images of 40 babies crammed into the Venice Hotel in Kiev, waiting to be picked up by their parents who are stuck in their countries due to the March/April 2020 lockdown, revealed to world public opinion the fallibility of the transnational system of surrogacy. By prolonging the time between leaving the surrogate’s body and delivery to the parents, the lockdown revealed in slow motion the unavoidable aspect of any surrogacy: the passage of a baby from one contractor to another. The Kiev case is used to introduce some of the most discussed controversies that revolve around the diffusion of transnational surrogacy, the limitation of national-based policy making, opposing demands coming from different social movements and challenges that surrogacy poses to society.

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Reprowebs: a conceptual approach to elasticity and change in the global assisted reproduction industry

König

Jacobson

2021

BioSocieties

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In the last few decades, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have become increasingly transregional and transnational, often involving travel within or between countries or even continents. Until recently, the global ART industry was marked by so-called ‘reprohubs’—places (such as southern California, Dubai, Anand, and Mumbai) specializing in the provision of reproductive services. While reprohubs continue to exist, in the last few years, many have splayed out, transforming into something more akin to webs that encompass, but go beyond these hubs. These webs show a unique dynamic capability to tighten, entangle, or extend in reaction to local and global changes, a characteristic which became particularly obvious during the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we propose conceptualizing this new dynamic capability as ‘reprowebs’—an approach that adds a new dimension to the existing conceptualization of reproductive travel and helps us to better understand current developments in the global ART industry.

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Transnational surrogacy and the earthquake in Nepal: a case study from Israel

Cited by 4 publications

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Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy

Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy

An Introduction to the Problems of Surrogacy and the Demands from Civil Society

Reprowebs: a conceptual approach to elasticity and change in the global assisted reproduction industry

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