Where are the limits between what we can do and what is lawful to do? Perhaps this is the big question to ask before starting to discuss whether surrogacy is acceptable or not. In this brief and accurate essay, Layla Martínez gives us the keys to understanding such a thorny issue —origins, development, medical processes, control and commodification of bodies—, and she takes us into an interesting, essential and controversial debate on reproduction on request. .

The text that Layla Martínez offers us puts on the table some concepts —altruism, desire, social class, racism, colonialism— to try to understand some practices that are sold to us as our right and that are not much more than another twist of the industrial exploitation of bodies.