Commercial surrogacy: how provisions of monetary remuneration and powers of international law can prevent exploitation of gestational surrogates

@article{Ramskold2013CommercialSH,
  title={Commercial surrogacy: how provisions of monetary remuneration and powers of international law can prevent exploitation of gestational surrogates},
  author={L. Ramskold and Marcus Posner},
  journal={Journal of Medical Ethics},
  year={2013},
  volume={39},
  pages={397 - 402}
}
Increasing globalisation and advances in artificial reproductive techniques have opened up a whole new range of possibilities for infertile couples across the globe. Inter-country gestational surrogacy with monetary remuneration is one of the products of medical tourism meeting in vitro fertilisation embryo transfer. Filled with potential, it has also been a hot topic of discussion in legal and bioethics spheres. Fears of exploitation and breach of autonomy have sprung from the current… 
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