Written by Yu-Ying Hu. This article illustrates how Taiwanese lesbian women navigate cross-border assisted reproduction under conditions of legal exclusion. Moving beyond narratives about reproductive tourism, it conceptualises transnational ART as a precarious yet agentic relay process, showing how vulnerability and resistance intertwine as women coordinate fragmented medical, legal, and logistical systems while bearing unequal reproductive health risks.
Written by Pei-Chieh Hsu. This article illustrates how state-subsidised assisted reproductive technology has reshaped reproduction in Taiwan, situating Taiwan’s In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) within global pronatalist regimes, fiscal governance, and demographic anxiety. It analyses policy design, comparative fertility outcomes, and ethnographic IVF experiences to show how subsidies engineered technological dependence while reproducing new social, medical, and moral hierarchies.
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