Gestational surrogacy in Mexico. The social vision of progress and autonomy underlying the regulatory policy making and discourse.

Gestational surrogacy is a booming market in Mexico especially for foreign couples. At the moment there is no Federal regulation of GS. The arguments in support of regulation pivot around a discourse of progress, which envisions a society where scientific advancements in reproductive medicine are made available to individual projects of self determination: biological parenthood (for intended parents) and economic empowerment through reproductive labor (for surrogates). The article underlines the contradictions embedded in this discourse and, by drawing from sociological critique of progress and modernity, warns against the possibility that, in a society devoted to self determination and to the overstepping of biological limitations, the promised freedom and happiness could be shrunk, rather than expanded. This publication is part of the Marie Sklodowska Curie project WoMoGeS funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 792464