Taboo and Repugnant Roundup

New Substack: Taboo & Repugnant Roundup

This issue examines several consequential developments in reproductive and higher-education policy:

• The rising use of elective IVF and PGT, and the shaky foundations of some popular objections

• Prabha Kotiswaran’s account of India’s shift from commercial surrogacy to an extreme altruism-only model, with profound implications for reproductive labor and women’s economic vulnerability 

• A surrogacy-escrow fraud case highlighting the need for basic financial regulation

• Penn’s refusal to turn over names of Jewish students and faculty to the Trump administration

Full analysis: https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlydkrawiec/p/taboo-and-repugnant-roundup-week-497

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/1/25) by Kimberly D. Krawiec

Designer babies, reproductive labor in India, surrogacy money, Trump and Penn

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