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Commodification

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Markets, Morals, And Limits In The Exchange Of Human Eggs, Kimberly D. Krawiec Jan 2015

Markets, Morals, And Limits In The Exchange Of Human Eggs, Kimberly D. Krawiec

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Price And Pretense In The Baby Market, Kimberly D. Krawiec Jan 2010

Price And Pretense In The Baby Market, Kimberly D. Krawiec

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Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bought and sold each day. As demonstrated in this Essay, the legal baby trade is a global market in which prospective parents pay, scores of intermediaries profit, and the demand for children is clearly differentiated by age, race, special needs, and other consumer preferences, with prices ranging from zero to over one hundred thousand dollars. Yet legal regimes and policymakers around the world pretend that the baby market does not exist, most notably through prohibitions against “baby selling” – typically defined as a prohibition against the …