<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black">From "N. B. Sarojini" <<a href="mailto:sama.womenshealth@gmail.com">sama.womenshealth@gmail.com</a>> <br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black">Sama Resource Group for
Women and Health, Delhi is happy to announce the release of,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black">1. ‘<b style><i style>Birthing a Market’</i></b>, <b style><i style>a
report on the study on commercial surrogacy</i></b> undertaken by Sama. The
study analyses the perspectives of various actors, surrogates, agents, doctors
and commissioning parent, involved in the industry and the arrangements to
establish the position of the surrogate in the arrangement as well as the
logics driving the industry. The research was conducted in Delhi and Punjab and
captures the variations in the industry across the regions. The study does
a careful analysis of the medical practice and the interests that influence
it. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black">The context in which
women are increasingly choosing to enter the industry as well as the various
accompanying ideological tropes in practice are highlighted to better
understand their choices and unearth the ways in which the arrangements embody
both relations of domination as well as possible subversion. The study
brings to fore a critique of the practice by raising questions regarding
women’s work, the public health system in India and medical ethics in private
health care. This critique is situated within the debates of
women’s autonomy and organization of care in the current political economy of a
transnational industry.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><i style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black">2.</span></i></b><b style><i style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"> “CAN WE SEE THE BABY BUMP
PLEASE?” </span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">is a 43 minute <b style>film</b> on <b style>commercial surrogacy</b> in India, that explores questions and concerns
through the experiences of surrogate women. The film’s narrative traces the
ethical challenges, medical malpractice, and potential exploitation that can
occur when surrogacy is practiced in a legal vacuum, while also highlighting
and understanding the interplay of surrogate women’s choices, contexts and
compulsions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Directed by Surabhi Sharma</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Produced by Sama – Resource Group
for Women and Health</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Executive Producer- Magic Lantern
Foundation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Funded by- UNFPA, India</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">For
more details contact: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Sama- Resource Group for Women and
Health, B-45, 2nd Floor, Main Road Shivalik, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi-110017 |
Email: <a href="mailto:sama.womenshealth@gmail.com">sama.womenshealth@gmail.com</a> | Website: <a href="http://www.samawomenshealth.org">www.samawomenshealth.org</a><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
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