"Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists"--.

• Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I. Visible Borders Law and Public Policy
• Chapter 1. ART and French Law
• Chapter 2. ART and Surrogacy in Belgium
• Part II. Invisible Borders, France, Belgium
• Chapter 3. Does the Embryo Make the Family?
• Chapter 4. Access to ART in France and Belgium
• Chapter 5. Removing Anonymity for Egg and Sperm Donors?
• Part III. Same-Sex Families and Surrogacy
• Chapter 6. When French Couples Become Parents through Surrogacy
• Chapter 7. Using ART or Surrogacy
• Chapter 8. Queer Families Online
• Part IV. Cross-Border Practices
• Chapter 9. Single Men and Women Barred from Using ART in France
• Chapter 10. Cross-Border Reproductive Care for French Patients in Belgium
• Chapter 11. Is ART a ‘National Issue’?
• Conclusion
• Index