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Sharmila Rudrappa teaches and researches on issues related to gender, race and labor in the U.S. and India. She is author of Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India (New York University Press, 2015).
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India’s restrictions on commercial surrogacy have pleased some ethicists and advocates who argue that foreign couples should not be allowed to use surrogates in poorer countries. But Sharmila Rudrappa argues that bans have just made the practice more dangerous.
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