Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond
Journal: Medical Anthropology
Year: 2023

Until early 2022, within the global fertility industry, Ukraine was one of the most important destinations for reproductive travel worldwide, particularly specializing in gestational surrogacy for international intended parents. Already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions, the surrogacy market, and here especially surrogates and intended parents, was strongly affected by the Russian invasion in February 2022. In this article, I discuss and analyze the reproductive entangle