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| Surrogates must stay in dormitories at some clinics. Courtesy of BBC News |
“Reproductive
tourism,” the practice of traveling abroad to receive assisted reproductive technology,
is a relatively recent phenomenon. Driven by the increasing availability of
such technology and a desire for children of their own, couples around the
world have turned to surrogacy and egg donation on an international scale. Yet
the resultant fertility industry poses a number of challenging bioethical
questions, several of which implicate potential rights violations that have so
far received little discussion in the global human rights community.
