The lecture talked about the Indian Surrogacy Regulation Bill of 2020, which restricts surrogacy to altruistic arrangements, to explore the exploitative trajectories that the Indian reproductive industry has taken since. It explored how altruistic surrogacy in India still entails an instrumentalisation of women's reproductive capacities for securing their families' futures while simultaneously making the terms of their labour more insecure and removing all state responsibility. The lecture was conducted as part of the Foundation Programme's studio on Democracy and Justice. 

Speaker: Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
Date: September 8, 2023
Venue: GICT Auditorium