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Surrogate Motherhood: Women produce babies, others own them

  Translation of the 2017 article: Maternidad subrogada: vosotrasparís, nosotros decidimos. Patricia Merino author of   Maternity, Equality and Fraternity                                                                                       In a TV program about surrogacy in Ukraine [1] , we watch the interview of a young Spanish couple who are to become parents thanks to an Ukrainian surrogate mother. The very competitive prices of surrogacy in this country have put this means of reproduction within the reach of the middle class (of the total 40-50,000 euros paid by intended parents, the program's researchers are unable to find out the exact amount the surrogate woman receives, but it is considerably less than the 8,000 euros per child advertised in the Ukrainian press as bait for women). The young 26-year-old Spanish intended mother who has a congenital condition that impedes her pregnancy, shows to the camera a tiny soccer team t shirt for the baby, and says, "when yo