A fascinating article on #race and
#gestationalsurrogacy #environmentalepigenetics #womb #kinship #reproduction
"Gestational surrogacy markets flourish through a construction of the womb as a rentable space with little impact on a child’s physical and personality traits. These traits come from gametes...While a surrogate shares blood, nutrients, oxygen, and an embodied experience with a future child, this is not seen to impact a child’s racial or genetic identity"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439211055228

A fascinating article on #race and
#gestationalsurrogacy #environmentalepigenetics #womb #kinship #reproduction
"Gestational surrogacy markets flourish through a construction of the womb as a rentable space with little impact on a child’s physical and personality traits. These traits come from gametes...While a surrogate shares blood, nutrients, oxygen, and an embodied experience with a future child, this is not seen to impact a child’s racial or genetic identity"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439211055228