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The advantages and disadvantages of altruistic and commercial surrogacy in India
BackgroundComprehensive commercial surrogacy became legal in India in 2002, and many foreigners, including individuals and same-sex couples, sought...
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Unraveling Informality and Precarity: New Labor Law Strategies for the Global Reproduction Network of Cross-Border Surrogacy
This paper provides an analysis of the complex global reproduction networks driving the rapidly expanding cross-border surrogacy industry in Asia’s...
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The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021: A Critique
In vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy have enabled many to achieve their dreams of parenthood. With a turnover of $500 million, reproductive...
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Ongoing Commercialization of Gestational Surrogacy due to Globalization of the Reproductive Market before and after the Pandemic
Surrogacy tourism in Asian countries has surged in recent decades due to affordable prices and favourable regulations. Although it has recently been...
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Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective
The ongoing debate on how best to regulate international commercial surrogacy defies consensus, as the most cogent normative and jurisprudential...
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Constraint-evading surrogacy: the missing piece in Radical Embodied Cognition’s non-representationalist account of intentionality?
Radical Embodied Cognition (REC) is an anti-representationalist approach to the nature of basic cognition proposed by Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin....
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The Status of ‘Mother’ in Gestational Surrogacy: the Shiʿi Jurisprudential Perspective
Shiʿi jurists have three different theories with regard to gestational surrogacy and who should be recognized as the mother of the newborn: (1) the...
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Markets for Human Body Parts: The Case of Commercial Surrogacy
The trade in human body parts can be understood as a solution to key challenges for both buyers and suppliers, as well as being a manifestation of...
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Regulating the international surrogacy market:the ethics of commercial surrogacy in the Netherlands and India
It is unclear what proper remuneration for surrogacy is, since countries disagree and both commercial and altruistic surrogacy have ethical...
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Missed Opportunities: Feminist Grounds for Regulating Transnational Surrogacy, in the Anthropocene
Currently, the ART (assisted reproductive technology) industry is unregulated, hel** to produce human beings that would not exist otherwise. This...
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Non-commercial Surrogacy in Thailand: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications in Local and Global Contexts
In this paper, the ethical, legal, and social implications of Thailand’s surrogacy regulations from both domestic and global perspectives are...
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Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor
In a thought-provoking article – or how she herself named it, ‘a thought experiment’ – the philosopher-medical ethicist Anna Smajdor analyzed in this...
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Negotiating ‘Surrogate Mothering’ and Women’s Freedom
Surrogacy is one of the desired reproductive technologies for family formation, yet surrogate mothers are subjected to unethical treatments and...
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A critique of whole body gestational donation
In her controversial paper, Anna Smajdor proposes that brain-dead people could be used as gestation units for prospective parents unable or unwilling...
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An ethical comparison of living kidney donation and surrogacy: understanding the relational dimension
BackgroundThe bioethical debates concerning living donation and surrogacy revolve around similar ethical questions and moral concepts. Nevertheless,...
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Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor
Anna Smajdor’s proposal of whole body gestational donation (WBGD) states that female patients diagnosed as brain-dead should be considered for use as...
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Metaphors and Models: On the Translation of Knowledge into Understanding
This article examines how the use of metaphors and models in scientific discourse can itself be made the subject of scientific discourse. In doing...
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Why only the commissioning parents should undertake parental duties in surrogacy cases?
The introduction of in vitro fertilization (IVF) results in a separation of sex and reproduction which has generated enormous ethical debate...
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Human Cloning: Recent Advances and Bioethical Issues
Human cloning is an ethical and scientific dilemma. The present chapter is a snapshot of human cloning from the scientific and ethical perspectives....
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Vulnerability, Exploitation and Autonomy
Bioethicists who seek to defend commercial transactions that intuitively seem exploitative, such as organ sales and commercial surrogacy, typically...