The ongoing debate on how best to regulate international commercial surrogacy defies consensus, as the most cogent normative and jurisprudential grounds for and against non-altruistic surrogacy remain controversial. This paper contributes to the debate by focusing on social justice issues arising from transnational, moneymaking surrogacy, with a focus on the Global South. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives on balancing interests, rights, privileges, and resources in the context of cross-border surrogacy-such as cosmopolitanism, communitarianism, liberal feminism, radical feminism, and neorealism-are not sufficient to treat the question of justice underpinning transnational surrogacy in the Global South.
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