SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nationstates, Vale Limited, Open Adoption
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Rudrappa what to expect when you are expecting. For much of her market-- driven pregnancy, the surrogate mother is invisible, butshe reappears once the baby is born as maybe t he mother who might want tohold, breast-feed, and otherwise nurture the newborn. This need fordisappearance and reappearance of the mother workers, driven by client affect, has stark material consequences for the former. Some interviewees explained that indian laws are exceedingly commissioning-- parent friendly; because eggs are either extracted from the commissioningmother or purchased on the market from a third party, the surrogate motherhas no genetic relationship to the baby/babies she bear. The main reason for india"s prominence in cross-- border reproductive care is theavailability of inexpensive and compliant labor; that is, the large numb er ofworking-class women who offer themselves up as surrogate mothers. One infertility specialist, visiting dallas from mumbai to recruit 285 clients, said to me, "any time you decideis right for you, we can work with you.
