In her latest book, author Pinki Virani takes up the issue of the colonisation of women’s bodies through IVF and surrogacy.
Your new book, Politics Of the Womb: The Perils Of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies (POW) takes on the business of baby-making. What made you write this book?
Research began several years ago for POW — an acronym for the book as much as for the prisoner of war that is a woman’s body. It is converted into an artificial-reproduction war zone with hyper-medicalisation and hormonal violence. I came across a small news item that said America’s National Centre for Disease Control had begun receiving reports of broken babies [physically and mentally malformed] post-IVF birth. I began intensively hunting for proof of the risks to IVF mothers. POW now places in the public domain, all the investigation and analysis along with the evidence from experts from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Europe, India, Israel, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Every person seeking to further their bloodline through “assisted” reproduction needs to know that there are very real risks of deadly diseases, deformities and disorders.
Politics of the Womb: The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies Hardcover – September 1, 2016
by Pinki Virani (Author)
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 aggressive 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 reproduction uses, reuses and recycles the woman. Pinki Virani combines investigation with analysis to question those who lead the worldwide onslaught on the woman’s womb in the name of babies, and squarely confronts what has become the business of baby-making by a chain of suppliers that manufactures on demand.
Sources: The Indian Express – Amazon
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I feel certain that for this take over to be achieved, midwifes and herbalists (who were the doctors of those earlier times) were labelled “witches” — an interesting topic
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