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Surrogacy, despite the good intentions of some, is modern slavery?

2021-12-08T18:54:04.782Z


ANALYSIS - In a rare exhaustive book, Les Marchés de la maternité, anthropologist Martine Segalen and gynecologist-endocrinologist Nicole Athea question the merits of “surrogacy”.


“Our function is reproduction (…). We are two-legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, walking chalices

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So that June described his role as servant scarlet in the novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. This fiction depicts a society where most women are sterile and only the servants can bring forth. The latter, dressed in red, see themselves enslaved and forced to put their bodies at the service of society.

Maternity Markets

, a collective work edited by anthropologist Martine Segalen and gynecologist-endocrinologist Nicole Athea, tackles the notion of “surrogacy” through a dozen different approaches.

Several major signatures, such as those of the philosopher Sylviane Agacinski, the historian Marie-Jo Bonnet or the doctors Frédérique Kuttenn and Monette Vacquin, accurately decipher the dehumanization of these women reduced to their reproductive function, and the responsibility

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Source: lefigaro

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