Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 904-906, September 2009

Rethinking reproductive “tourism” as reproductive “exile”

  • Marcia C. Inhorn, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marcia C. Inhorn, Department of Anthropology, 10 Sachem Street, Room 202, P.O. Box 208277, New Haven, CT 06520-8277 (FAX: 203-432-3669).
    • ,
  • Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., M.B.E., H.C.L.D.

      Affiliations

    • Yale Fertility Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Received 7 November 2008; received in revised form 23 December 2008; accepted 2 January 2009. published online 26 February 2009.

Whereas reproductive “tourism” implies leisure travel, reproductive “exile” bespeaks the numerous difficulties and constraints faced by infertile patients who are “forced” to travel globally for assisted reproduction. Given this reality, it is time to rethink the language of “reproductive tourism,” replacing it with more accurate and patient-centered terms.

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 M.C.I. has nothing to disclose. P.P. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00046-6

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.055

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 904-906, September 2009

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