DasGupta, Sayantani & Dasgupta, Shamita Das (eds.), Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life

Surrogacy is an Assisted Reproductive Technology by which intended parents (IP), who cannot conceive or carry the fetus by themselves, are nonetheless able to give birth as a woman will bear the child for them. Surrogacy is a complex phenomenon that is organized in different ways and which implies different politics around the world. For example, ‘traditional surrogacy’ occurs when the surrogate is also the egg provider, while ‘gestational surrogacy’ refers to carrying a fetus without being a...