Drane & McGunagle & Jacobson | North Carolina Public Radio | October 21, 2022
Surrogacy intersects with big questions about power dynamics, reproductive justice and who gets to make decisions about how you can build a family. But the loudest voices in the conversation are rarely the surrogates themselves.
Katie O’Malley & Sungsil Lee | Elle | September 21, 2022
Wartime has thrown the Ukrainian surrogacy industry into disarray for surrogates and couples alike. One couple’s surrogate had to be evacuated to Poland, and complex parentage laws across continents have made their #surrogacy journey “a mountain of challenges.”
What’s Love Got to Do With It? The Politics of Renting Wombs
Michele Goodwin | June 14, 2016
In a talk delivered at the Women Deliver 2016 Global Conference, Michele Goodwin, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, draws on her experience in India to discuss the impact of commercial surrogacy on gestational mothers. Her comments are situated within a broader context – the transnational reach of ARTs, and how these technologies feed on and create global inequity and collide with concepts such as “love” and “sisterhood.”
Goodwin is also the director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and author of “Baby Markets: Money and The New Politics of Creating Families.”
The Contemporary Genetic Landscape
Marsha Darling | Tarrytown Meetings | 2010
In a very concrete way, women’s bodies are the gateway to the manipulation of human genes.
In this talk, Marsha Darling, director of the Center for African, Black, and Caribbean Studies at Adelphi University, summarizes some of the core issues and challenges raised by new genetic and reproductive biotechnologies, including their use in surrogacy and paid egg donation.
The Tarrytown Meetings were convened in 2010, 2011, and 2012 to “address challenges raised by profoundly consequential human biotechnologies and related emerging technologies.” Discussion topics at the meetings included sex selection, trait selection, commercial surrogacy, use of women’s eggs for fertility and research, and gamete donor anonymity. The meetings were organized by the Center for Genetics and Society, and held at the Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center in Tarrytown, N.Y.
