ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on intending parents who commission surrogacy arrangements. It focuses on two specific topics that have received considerable attention within the literature, both of which arguably demonstrate many of the authors' concerns with regards to the operations of capitalism, the production of vulnerability, and claims to agency through the assumption of intent. The chapter explores how intending parents initially negotiate surrogacy arrangements, and specifically how they advertise, with the aim of identifying a woman who may act as a surrogate for them. It then focuses on the ways in which intending parents lay claim to the pregnancies that they commission as their own. The chapter specifically focuses on intending parents (or their representatives in the form of fertility clinics) and their advertisements as available on the websites in the first four months of 2016.
