The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of
commercial surrogacy in India. By chance, the author's fieldwork
began around the same time NSW legislation in Australia extended
its ban on commercial surrogacy to include overseas arrangements.
Not long after returning from fieldwork in India, the Home Ministry
of India changed the conditions of entry for intending parents
(IPs) traveling to India for a surrogacy arrangement. From November
2013 IPs would have to apply for a medical visa, and could only
obtain a medical visa for surrogacy if they had been married for at
least two years. In 2016 the Indian Surrogacy (regulation) Act was
introduced, commercial surrogacy was banned and foreigners were no
longer able to enter into surrogacy arrangements in India. India
was the first among a trail of 'pop up' reproductive destinations
including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, Cambodia and Laos. This book
captures a moment in the recent history of the emerging global
'surroscape'. Alongside the detailed account of the experiences of
parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis
of regulatory systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in
Australia and India. With the authors archival research in the UK
she further analyses the regulation of surrogacy with cross
cultural comparison of the relatively longer history of surrogacy
regulation in the UK. Reproductive technologies and the many
options these create are ahead of the law and while the law
struggles to keep up we have a rich field of investigation. What do
different regulatory systems tell us about how we see society,
children, women's bodies, reproduction and fecundity, kinship and
family formation?
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