Women's Rights Groups Urge Caution on Surrogacy Bill

Taiwan’s health ministry is proposing to legalize surrogacy but women's rights groups are concerned that suggested changes to the Assisted Reproductive Act could be used to exploit women’s bodies.

On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus reporter Herel Hughes sits down with Chen Wen-Wei, vice chair of the Awakening Foundation, an organization that combats gender discrimination in Taiwan. We first zoom in on what surrogacy might look like under the new bill, then zoom out to look at wider issues in society that legalizing surrogacy won’t be able to solve.