Publisher's Synopsis
Among life's choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of 'infertility' - cruelly attributed as 'their fault' - to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology. But how safe is agressive IVF, invasive ICSI, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation and commercial surrogacy? 'Politics of the Womb' proves that there can be broken babies and breaking mothers; it rips away the romanticism around uterus transplants, warns of genetic theft and 'designer babies' and points to the human element being sacrificed, as artificial reproductive uses, reuses and recycles the woman.
