MacArthur Grant Sheds Light on Reproductive Technologies
By Elayne Clift,
Sentinel Source
| 09. 18. 2014
[References CGS]
A couple has had miscarriages, considered in-vitro fertilization, discussed adoption and finally opted for a surrogate to bear their baby in India. They visit her before signing on and feel that the agency’s “gestational mothers” are well cared for and decently compensated. But how much do they really know about the practice of cross-border surrogacy?
Thanks to a recent MacArthur Foundation grant to the Center for Genetics and Society and Our Bodies Ourselves, the information gap surrounding surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technologies will be addressed, with an emphasis on human rights and social justice. Light will also be cast on the rapidly growing industry assisted reproductive technologies has spawned.
“Cross-border surrogacy raises thorny questions,” says Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society. “Some people look at women selling their eggs or reproductive capacity as an individual right within the context of wage labor. Others see these practices as deepening gender and class inequalities in a not-so-free market.”
“Most information available in the mainstream fails to paint a complete picture,” adds Ayesha Chatterjee of Our Bodies...
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