TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Commercial gestational surrogacy: unravelling the threads between reproductive tourism and child trafficking
JO  - Anti-trafficking review
A1  - Hyder-Rahman, Nishat
SP  - 123
EP  - 143
VL  - 16
IS  - 
N2  - Narratives of commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) as 'baby-selling' often conflate or interchange the transfer of children born via surrogacy with trafficking in children or the sale of children, two sometimes overlapping but nonetheless distinct offenses. Moreover, anti-trafficking laws have been used to police cross-border CGS. But when do CGS arrangements fall within the category of legitimate 'reproductive tourism' and when do they amount to child trafficking? In this paper I critically explore intersections between human trafficking laws and CGS, vis-à-vis the child, charting the relevant trafficking laws in the context of international surrogacy, and analysing whether trafficking laws are an appropriate mechanism through which to regulate CGS. I conclude that while child trafficking might occur via surrogacy, CGS in itself is not child trafficking under international law.    Keywords: Human trafficking; <p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2286-7511
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.14197/atr.201221168
ID  - ref1
ER  -