[The Reproductive Exploitation of Women and the Myth of Altruistic Surrogacy: An Overview of the Phenomenon of Gestation by Substitution].

The article approaches the issue of surrogacy from a global point of view. Surrogacy is analysed from international and comparative law perspective, as well as the effects of the legalization of altruistic surrogacy in the first-world countries on vulnerable women in other parts of the world. The paper concludes extrapolating the conclusions of this analysis to the current debate about legalization of altruistic surrogacy in Spain.