Women's Control Over Decision to Participate in Surrogacy : Experiences of Surrogate Mothers in Gujarat.

Autor: Naik Africawala A; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390 002, India. asmitanaik84@gmail.com., Kapadia S; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390 002, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of bioethical inquiry [J Bioeth Inq] 2019 Dec; Vol. 16 (4), pp. 501-514. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Aug 09.
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-019-09931-3
Abstrakt: The rise of surrogacy in India over the last decade has helped individuals across the world to realize their parenting aspirations. In the macro-context of poverty in India and the hierarchical and patriarchal family set-up, concerns are expressed about coercion of women to participate in surrogacy. While the ethical issues engulfing surrogacy are widely discussed, not much is known about the role women play in the decision-making to participate in surrogacy. The paper aims to addresses this gap and is based on a part of a larger ethnographic study conducted at a surrogacy clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India. We explored experiences of forty-one surrogate mothers using in-depth interviews and analysed the narratives to identify women's own perceived role in the decision-making to participate in surrogacy. Narratives describing the decision-making process were identified and treated as a preliminary unit of analysis. We examined the use of singular and plural pronouns like "I," "me," and "mine" versus "we," "us," and "our," along with the use of active and passive voice to determine whether women assumed responsibility for the decision to participate in surrogacy or they attributed the decision to others. Findings unravelled the complexities of the decision-making process and indicated that eighty-five percent of the women played an active role in the decision-making to participate in surrogacy, albeit with new avenues of exploitation in the commercial market space and raised serious bioethical concerns.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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