This article employs the concept of respectability and the discursive representation of gender equality policies to discuss how surrogacy is represented in Nordic parliamentary debates and policy documents. The article’s objective is to study how respectability, problems and equality are represented and discursively and rhetorically produced through a comparative study of Finnish and Norwegian political discourses on domestic unpaid surrogacy and cross-border commercial surrogacy. The article uses rhetorical and discursive analysis to analyse the Finnish and Norwegian Parliaments’ bills, members’ initiatives and proceedings from 2002 to 2018. Finland’s policy on surrogacy has evolved from an unregulated and permissive approach towards a more restrictive one, with discourses focusing on medicalisation, equality, altruism and safety concerning domestic surrogacy and problems and risks concerning cross-border surrogacy. Norway’s policy on surrogacy has been restrictive consistently, with discourses focusing on surrogacy as a transnational social problem involving exploitation of women and children, and biocentrism. Analysing surrogacy regulation in Nordic welfare states, the author concludes that policies and parliamentary debates in both countries have expressed expectations for inclusive health policies and social security for families. Cross-border surrogacy is characterised as an unwanted consequence of globalisation and marketisation of reproduction. Surrogate mothers’ respectability is constructed through rhetoric on differences in terms of nationality, class and binary representations of female caring and instrumentalism.

本文采用尊重概念和性别平等政策的话语权表示，讨论代议制在北欧议会辩论和政策文件中如何体现。本文的目的是通过对芬兰和挪威关于国内无偿代孕和跨境商业代孕的政治话语进行比较研究，研究如何尊重，问题和平等地体现，话语和修辞。本文使用修辞和话语分析来分析2002年至2018年芬兰和挪威议会的法案，议员的倡议和议事程序。芬兰的代孕政策已从不受管制和放任的方法演变为限制性更强的方法，其论述集中在医疗方面， 平等，关于国内代孕的利他主义和安全，以及关于跨境代孕的问题和风险。挪威关于代孕的政策一直受到严格的限制，讨论的重点是代孕，这是一个涉及对妇女和儿童的剥削以及生物中心主义的跨国社会问题。通过分析北欧福利国家的代孕法规，作者得出结论，两国的政策和议会辩论都表达了对包容性卫生政策和家庭社会保障的期望。跨界代孕的特征是再生产全球化和市场化的不良后果。代孕母亲的尊敬是通过对女性的关爱，工具主义的国籍，阶级和二元代表制方面的差异的修辞来建构的。