Origins of Love: the reality and ethics of reproductive tourism

Assisted reproductive technology has grown significantly in Australia as in other countries and hundreds of thousands of children have now been born because of it around the world. Most of us know people who’ve had children this way.
But there’s another side to assisted reproduction with which Australians are less familiar. You may know that it’s often difficult for infertile couples to find suitable egg donors if a woman cannot produce her own eggs or if her eggs are not able to be fertilised.
And it’s even harder for couples to find a surrogate mother if they can’t have a child themselves, or they want to have a child who is biologically related to both of them (especially as payments and other rewards have been prohibited in Australia).
You may have heard of “reproductive tourism”, where people travel to another country to undertake procedures that Australian women may be unwilling to undertake, or that would be unlawful in Australia. But most of us know little about the experiences of people in those countries who are drawn into these activities.



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