Challenges to ART market: a Polish case

Alichniewicz, Anna; Michałowska, Monika

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“…Many Polish fertility clinics use their websites as a tool in recruiting egg donors. Some feminist scholars have criticized the discrepancy between the growing commercialization of the Polish assisted reproduction market and altruistic rhetoric, including the language of gift-giving used to recruit donors, as revealing the hypocrisy of many Polish clinics ( Alichniewicz and Michałowska, 2015 ). In addition to fertility clinics, at least one agency in Warsaw functions as a broker, providing egg donors and surrogates for international clients in a process that includes the recruitment and travel of Polish donors to distant countries.…”

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Unravelling orders in a borderless Europe? Cross-border reproductive care and the paradoxes of assisted reproductive technology policy in Germany and Poland

Wilson¹

2016

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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This article examines assisted reproduction policy and practices in Germany and Poland. Germany is among the most restrictive countries in the European Union (EU) with respect to assisted reproductive technologies. In contrast, Poland only recently passed legislation regulating assisted reproductive technologies. Before this, most practices were unregulated, despite vocal opposition to all forms of IVF from conservative Roman Catholic activists. Germany and Poland differ significantly regarding the cultural narratives and historical experience that impact attitudes toward reproduction. In Germany, discussions on assisted reproduction often invoke concerns about medical intervention in ethically complex matters, due – in part – to the country’s National Socialist past. My objectives in this article centre on examining assisted reproduction contexts in each of these two countries, with attention to the framing of debates on reproduction, the anxieties that inform them, and the resulting paradoxes. I consider the unintended consequences of domestic policy and their importance regarding cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). Within the borderless EU, the widespread practice of CBRC demonstrates the ineffectiveness of national policies. Moreover, this shift in location can impact practices and trends found in other accessible, but less restrictive countries. Of particular concern are the relocation of risk to ‘bioavailable’ populations in less affluent countries and the reification of cultural and socio-economic hierarchies.

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Unravelling orders in a borderless Europe? Cross-border reproductive care and the paradoxes of assisted reproductive technology policy in Germany and Poland

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2016

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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The Oocyte Economy

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This book addresses a par tic u lar cell lineage-human oocytes, the gametes or reproductive cells specific to women. These are the cells that transmit ge ne tic inheritance from mother to child and orchestrate the pro cesses of conception and gestation. At the broadest level, in this book, I ask what it means to live with this cell lineage. How does its par tic u lar history, trajectory, and affordances intersect with the biological and social lives of women? How do women experience and understand the capacities and constraints of these cells, and how do they incorporate them into their everyday lives as an ele ment of reproductive practice?These are questions nicely located at the pivot point between nature and culture. As biological questions, they interrogate the relationship between part and whole, cellular life and organism life. Our bodies, like those of all complex organisms, are constituted of cell matrices that cooperate in our coherence. Each kind has its own evolutionary history. Our bodies are ecosystems that assem ble cellular communities, which lead back into evolutionary time (Dupré 2012). The exquisite coordination of

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Challenges to ART market: a Polish case

Cited by 13 publications

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Unravelling orders in a borderless Europe? Cross-border reproductive care and the paradoxes of assisted reproductive technology policy in Germany and Poland

Unravelling orders in a borderless Europe? Cross-border reproductive care and the paradoxes of assisted reproductive technology policy in Germany and Poland

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