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The term “reproductive tourism” first surfaced in Canada in the late 1980s as that country carried out an exhaustive survey of public opinion under the Royal Commission headed by Dr. Patricia Baird. The coinage was used to refer to the prospect that unless the government passed comprehensive national laws, women and couples unable to obtain treatments in their own province would seek them out in another. By 1999, Canadians were using it to talk about women who, when refused high risk procedures there, went to the U.S. instead. Today, borders are being crossed throughout the EU, where member states have quite different codes, among different U.S. states, and internationally.
In some quarters, a concerted effort has been made to rename the practice, giving it a less negative spin as “cross-border [or transborder] reproductive care.” Some have also hyperbolically framed those who travel outside their own countries for reproductive services as victims of repressive legal systems, “reproductive exiles” who take on added risks by traveling abroad, because if procedures go awry, they are unlikely to have ready...
In some quarters, a concerted effort has been made to rename the practice, giving it a less negative spin as “cross-border [or transborder] reproductive care.” Some have also hyperbolically framed those who travel outside their own countries for reproductive services as victims of repressive legal systems, “reproductive exiles” who take on added risks by traveling abroad, because if procedures go awry, they are unlikely to have ready...