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The Political Economy And Legal Regulation Of Transnational Commercial Surrogate Labor, Cyra A. Choudhury
The Political Economy And Legal Regulation Of Transnational Commercial Surrogate Labor, Cyra A. Choudhury
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
India's commercial surrogacy business has been the focus of intense media scrutiny for the past decade. In that time, it has grown from a $400 million industry to over $2 billion. While the growth in the surrogacy market has been rapid and widespread, the Indian government has struggled to regulate it as a business, as a medical practice and for the protection of surrogates. After nearly a decade of proposed draft bills, the government has yet to enact comprehensive regulation. It is now clear that the state will not ban such a lucrative source of income. Scholars of surrogacy have …