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The biggest worry about surrogacy is that it exploits women and turns them and the babies into commodities. This chapter explores exploitation and commodification in detail. It shows that some arrangements, including altruistic surrogacy, do exploit women but that exploitation could be reduced and potentially eliminated in the professional model. Some commercial arrangements commodify women, especially in transnational surrogacy, but this could also be avoided.
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Walker, R., van Zyl, L. (2017). Exploitation and Commodification. In: Towards a Professional Model of Surrogate Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58658-2_2
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