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