“The Contented Faces of a Unique Australian Family”: Privilege and Vulnerability in News Media Reporting of Offshore Surrogacy Arrangements.

The authors discuss the Australian news media reporting on offshore surrogacy. They mention that media accounts of Australian citizens who enter into offshore commercial surrogacy arrangements evoke ideas of the agentic reproductive citizen to represent social or medical infertility. They say that media accounts of offshore commercial surrogacy depend on the depiction of women acting as surrogates as equally agentic in their decisions to enter into surrogacy arrangements.