Child Trafficking: Surrogacy

Buying another human being should never be possible. Yet, surrogacy has become a growing practice that allows for the purchase of human beings and violates human rights worldwide. By investigating the companies, surrogacy farms, the physical and psychological effects on children and surrogate mothers, the contracts, the malpractice, and the organized crime, Elena Crespi Asensio paints a comprehensive picture of how reproductive exploitation is structured and calls for consideration of possible solutions.

In this text, Crespi explores the beneficiaries of this trade and how it affects those involved. This trade, which draws its logic from unbridled capitalism, conflates desires and rights, exploits women's bodies, and commodifies children. Underlying all of this is a disturbing question: Is everything for sale?