ABSTRACT
Commercial surrogacy, either a criminal offense or prohibitively expensive for many first-world
citizens, has gone global in the last decade. India has become the international centre for repro-
ductive tourism, boasting numerous high-quality and low-fee clinics. The growth of the surro-
gacy industry in India raises serious concerns of gender justice, in particular whether the
option is inordinately enticing for women who lack other remunerable options and whether
the conditions are adequate and the compensation fair. The growing trend of global commercial
surrogacy has thus compelled many feminists to reopen the moral debate that surrounded the
domestic practice some 30 years ago in the wake of the infamous Baby M trial. But what is
clear this time is that the practice must now be assessed alongside the additional moral dimen-
sion of global injustice.
