Родство и нови репродуктивни технологии. По примери от България
Kinship and new reproducte technologies. On examples from Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The article traces some of the changes that have occurred over the last two decades in the sphere of kinship relationships – through the perspective of the new forms of assisted reproduction and the public debates that accompany their legislation and regulation. Taking as a launching point a specific realm in the anthropology of kinship since the end of the twentieth century, the article outlines the changes in the meaning and interpretation of kinship in the era of artificial conception when the new tendencies of developing family as an institution are paralled with forms of assisted reproduction that challenge previous traditional notions and perceptions. The article makes an overview of major political, legislative and ethical questions related to assisted reproduction and illustrates these with examples of the public debates around the introduction of such technologies in Bulgaria, more specifically around the project for the law of surrogate motherhood, proposed in 2011. The emphasis in the text falls not on the medical and technological aspects of the new forms of assisted reproduction, but rather on the role of the latter in rethinking the existing patterns of kinship relationships (mostly the category of parenthood), as well as their contribution to various discussions on kinship in present-day societies.

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