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Adoption and surrogate pregnancy are the two most realistic options currently available for millions of couples unable to have biological children. This text covers the ways in which adoption and surrogate pregnancy overlap and influence each other, the nuances that further complicate matters, and the controversies surrounding both issues.

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During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a "disruptive" model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy elsewhere. In International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia, Andrea Whittaker traces the development of this industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. Through a case study of the industry in Thailand, the book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it: surrogates, intended parents, and facilitators. The industry offers intended parents the opportunity to form much desired families, but also creates vulnerabilities for all people involved. These vulnerabilities became evident in cases of trafficking, exploitation, and criminality that emerged in southeast Asia, leading to greater scrutiny on the industry as a whole. Yet the trade continues in new flexible hybrid forms, involving the circulation of reproductive gametes, embryos, surrogates, and ova donors across international borders to circumvent regulations. The book demonstrates the need for new forms of regulation to protect those involved in international surrogacy arrangements.

Surrogate Motherhood --- Thailand --- Medical --- Social Science --- Surrogate motherhood --- Social science

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Surrogate mothers --- Surrogate motherhood --- Pregnancy --- Motherhood

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Donormoederschap --- Draagmoederschap --- Maternité porteuse --- Surrogate motherhood --- Surrogate motherhood. --- Surrogate mothers --- Attitudes. --- Attitudes --- Surrogate mothers - Attitudes.

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"Contre la gestation pour autrui pourrait être le sous-titre de cet ouvrage qui prend position contre une pratique sociale trop souvent justifiée au nom du désir d'enfant. Au cours du demi-siècle écoulé, de prodigieux progrès biologiques ont permis de mettre au monde des enfants qui viennent combler un désir au demeurant légitime de paternité et de maternité, mais ils ont engendré de nombreuses dérives dont celle qu'on désigne par le sigle GPA. Au nom de la primauté du droit subjectif, de puissants lobbies se font entendre pour que la France lève l'interdiction de cette pratique. Cet ouvrage révèle l'envers de l'image du couple souriant tenant son bébé dans les bras. Il expose l'histoire de la pratique et les risques de toute nature que courent les femmes contraintes par leur situation familiale et financière d'abandonner un enfant qui est pourtant le leur. Cette violence inouïe à leur égard, comme à celui des enfants, est ici explorée dans ses multiples dimensions sociale, médicale, juridique, philosophique, psychologique. Tel est le propos de cet ouvrage engagé pour le respect des femmes prises dans les filets des marchés de la maternité."

Surrogate mothers --- Surrogate motherhood --- Gestation pour autrui. --- Maternité. --- Maternité.