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The Bleak Future of Reproductive Rights for Queer Indians
Abstract:
Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality in India in 2018, LGBTQ+ rights are under threat in the nation under Prime Minister Modi's far-right government. In this commentary, I explain why two bills recently passed by the Indian parliament-the Artificial Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill and the Surrogacy Regulation Bill-will have chilling effects on the reproductive rights of LGBTQ+ citizens. The biologically essentialist and heteropatriarchal framing of reproductive rights in the bills will prevent LGBTQ+ citizens from accessing reproductive technologies. Contextualizing this framing within Modi's wider far-right Hindu nationalist agenda, I argue that there is a need for a heightened bioethical call to action from queer and feminist bioethicists in India and across the globe.
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