title: The global landscape of cross-border reproductive care:  twenty key findings for the new millennium.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC), also known as procreative tourism, fertility tourism, or reproductive tourism, is an increasing global phenomenon. This article reviews the expanding scholarly literature on CBRC, with 2010-2011 representing watershed years for CBRC scholarship and activism.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Terminological debates, missing data, and lack of international monitoring plague the study of CBRC. Nonetheless, it is widely acknowledged that CBRC is a growing industry, with new global hubs, new intermediaries, new media, and new spaces of interaction. Religious bans and legal restrictions have created a patchwork of 'restrictive' and 'permissive' countries, with law evasion being a primary driver of CBRC. Yet, patient motivations for CBRC are diverse and patients' levels of satisfaction with CBRC and its outcomes are generally high. Thus, scholarly concern with CBRC as law evasion must be tempered with qualitative studies of positive patient experiences.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CBRC can be considered a form of 'global gynecology' in which reproductive medicine, tourism, and commerce are converging in the second decade of the new millennium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8277, USA.
authors.forename: Marcia C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Inhorn
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Patrizio
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000628:therapy*; D057193:Medical Tourism / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends*; D011247:Pregnancy; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013533:Gestational Carriers