Summary:

Through this work I will offer an overview of the phenomenon of reproductive travel and analyse the impact of the outsource of reproductive resources for the purpose of surrogacy and artificial reproductive technologies services. I will focus then on the metaphysical understanding of surrogacy, and on how it shapes the legal framework for surrogation agreements. This reasoning will lead to the evaluation of a Self-sufficient Approach, for tackling the consequences of reproductive travel, and of an Upstream Theorization, for the purpose of centring the experience of the gestational surrogate in the context of the reproductive market.

Key words: surrogacy | ethics | bioethics