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... prospective parents travel overseas or go online to source gamete donors or to organize surrogacy arrangements that are not available within Australia. Others find themselves conceiving children in reproductive arrangements very different from what they had originally intended. This chapter theorizes queer...

... Chapter 5 explores how queer parents construct race in practices of telling origin stories after a child is born. Many queer parents center their origin stories of donor conception or surrogacy on kinship forged through love, cementing parental ties even prior to a child's birth. This discourse...

... these restrictions. This is especially true for third-party reproductive assistance (egg and sperm donation, as well as surrogacy), which is prohibited by the Sunni Islamic authorities and is now illegal in the Emirates. Moreover, women needing a selective abortion to “reduce” high-risk, multifetal IVF pregnancies...