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Recent trends in reproductive tourism and international surrogacy: ethical considerations and challenges for policy

Overview of attention for article published in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, August 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#21 of 705)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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3 blogs
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6 X users
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1 Facebook page
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1 Wikipedia page

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Title
Recent trends in reproductive tourism and international surrogacy: ethical considerations and challenges for policy
Published in
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, August 2015
DOI 10.2147/rmhp.s63862
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Authors

Raywat Deonandan

Abstract

Reproductive tourism, or "cross-border reproductive care", is the phenomenon of people crossing international borders to access reproductive technologies. One of the fastest-growing categories of cross-border reproductive care is international surrogacy, the act of infertile clients traveling internationally to engage the paid services of foreign surrogates to carry their babies to term. It is a multibillion-dollar global industry presenting unique legal, ethical, and risk-management challenges. Clients tend to be price-sensitive, middle-income individuals seeking services from surrogates who in the global market are thought to be of quite low socioeconomic status. Risks are experienced by all parties involved in the transaction, including the client's countries of origin and destination. The risks to the surrogate evolve from the potential to exploit her economic vulnerability in order to encourage both consent and unfair pricing. Opportunities for policy development are explored.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 128 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 18%
Student > Master 19 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Researcher 8 6%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 48 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 5%
Unspecified 3 2%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 55 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 July 2022.
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#824,362
of 24,788,795 outputs
Outputs from Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
#21
of 705 outputs
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#10,211
of 269,743 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
#3
of 6 outputs
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