This article centers on ‘forced surrogacy,’ an underexplored collateral of the erstwhile transnational surrogacy industry in India, to critically analyze recent policy developments around surrogacy regulation in India. Building upon Dalit feminist perspectives, in this article, I argue that ‘forced surrogacy’ is an indentured form of clinical labor performed through the bodies of subaltern women inhabiting the margins of the Indian polity. Analyzing recent media discourses on ‘forced surrogacy’ in conjunction with reproductive legislations formulated between 2005 and 2021, I demonstrate how an indigenous standpoint perspective usefully complicates theorizing about clinical labor highlighting a continuum between caste-based indentured labor and contemporary clinical labor in India. The analysis investigates the necropolitical dimensions of India’s recent policy directive to ban ‘commercial’ surrogacy while condoning ‘altruistic’ surrogacy. Such a criminalization absolves the State of accountability for circumstances that enable ‘forced surrogacy’ outside the limits of both the traditional family and the ‘free’ market. The article concludes with a discussion on how indentured clinical labor reveals the limits of existing normative frameworks that overlook structural realities in governing clinical market regimes, and how these limits in turn become the basis for the extraction of unfree clinical labor from subaltern bodies.

本文以“强迫代孕”为中心，这是印度昔日跨国代孕行业尚未开发的衍生品，旨在批判性地分析印度代孕监管的最新政策发展。基于达利特女权主义观点，在本文中，我认为“强迫代孕”是一种契约形式的临床劳动，通过居住在印度政体边缘的底层妇女的身体进行。通过分析最近关于“强迫代孕”的媒体言论以及 2005 年至 2021 年间制定的生殖立法，我展示了本土立场观点如何有效地使临床劳动的理论复杂化，强调印度基于种姓的契约劳动和当代临床劳动之间的连续性。该分析调查了印度最近禁止“商业”代孕同时纵容“利他”代孕的政策指令的死亡政治层面。这种刑事定罪免除了国家对传统家庭和“自由”市场范围之外的“强迫代孕”情况的责任。文章最后讨论了契约临床劳动如何揭示了现有规范框架的局限性，这些框架忽视了管理临床市场制度的结构性现实，以及这些限制如何反过来成为从底层机构中榨取不自由临床劳动的基础。