Surrogacy: bodies, substances, and desires on the move. Exploring (non) reproductive trajectories from a bioethical perspective

LIMA, NATACHA SALOMÉ; ARIZA, LUCÍA

Porto

Conferencia; 15th World Conference Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law; 2023

International Chair in Bioethics

In the last few years, studies on reproductive technologies have examined cross-borderreproductive care, with a focus on European countries. More recently, and particularlyin the framework of the international research project Repro-flows in Europe, NorthAfrica, and Latin America: people and gametes mobilities in the fragmented context oftransnational regulation of assisted reproduction and adoption (PID2020-112692RB-C21 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science andInnovation, some of us have begun to explore the reproductive mobilities that involvecircuits, connections, and countries of the Global South. In many cases, thesemovements are motivated by access barriers, regulatory restrictions and economicadvantages of some of these procedures. This presentation will focus on the narrativesof people who become family through surrogacy in Argentina. We seek to understandhow the experience of becoming a parent through a surrogate is narrated and what dothese stories say about relationships, affection and kinship forged in the realm of newbiomedical possibilities. It is expected that the presentation opens up the discussion andpromotes situated disciplinary dialogues, recognizing the experiences, meanings andpractices that configure new ways of making families and challenge the conventionalnotions of Western kinship.