The Bleak Future of Reproductive Rights for Queer Indians
Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality in India in 2018, LGBTQ+ rights are under threat in the nation under Prime Minister Modi’s far-right government. In this commentary, I explain why two bills recently passed by the Indian parliament—the Artificial Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) B...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-11 |
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artificial reproductive technologies
B queer bioethics B Surrogacy B Reproductive Rights B feminist bioethics B India |
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Summary: | Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality in India in 2018, LGBTQ+ rights are under threat in the nation under Prime Minister Modi’s far-right government. In this commentary, I explain why two bills recently passed by the Indian parliament—the Artificial Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill and the Surrogacy Regulation Bill—will have chilling effects on the reproductive rights of LGBTQ+ citizens. The biologically essentialist and heteropatriarchal framing of reproductive rights in the bills will prevent LGBTQ+ citizens from accessing reproductive technologies. Contextualizing this framing within Modi’s wider far-right Hindu nationalist agenda, I argue that there is a need for a heightened bioethical call to action from queer and feminist bioethicists in India and across the globe. |
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ISSN: | 1552-146X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1334 |