![]() ![]() Liberal feminists support the right of the woman surrogate to choose to use her own body as she pleases. Academics and activists studying surrogacy have portrayed it in four different ways. media runs glowing stories portraying it as a win/win situation for clients and surrogates. and has no government regulations, but surrogates can earn more than what they normally would in ten years. It costs one-third of what it does in the U.S. India is the first country in the global South to have both national and international customers for this medical industry. This differs from traditional surrogacy in that, rather than using an egg cell from the surrogate mother, the fertilized egg implanted in the Indian woman’s womb is from both biological parents. Pande, an Indian emigrant, was prompted to write this book because there was almost no research on “India’s new form of outsourcing,” gestational surrogacy. Review: Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India, by Amrita Pande, published by Columbia University Press (September 23, 2014), 272 pages. ![]() From the January-February 2017 issue of News & Letters ![]()
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