World Outsources Pregnancies To India
IT companies outsourced programming there, other companies outsourced customer support amid other services, now it's pregnancies that are being outsourced to India...
More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years...
[Source: The Guardian]
I totally understand the natural desire for a lot of people to have children and a family, and I know how hard it is for infertile couples, how they feel, and how they yearn for a solution; and I think that if a woman is ready to help them out and be a surrogate mother for their child, then that is a very kind, generous and respectable action from her side.
But I think turning this around into a business, where people take advantage of some poor women in India or elsewhere who are doing this just because they can't afford a good living otherwise is just very wrong, immoral and unacceptable.
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Posted by: Janissary at January 1, 2008 09:10 PMI don't know.. but i read the article and i had goosebumps !
It didn't feel right. I am not "totally against" the procedure ... some people indeed do want to have a baby of their own yet for certain medical reasons they cannot...
It is true what you have mentioned that it is not "right" to use those indian ladies as "baby farms" and pay them almost quarter of what they would have paid if they were back in the states or Britian. But again, those ladies are in need and they wouldn't have gone through all the pain and pressaure of being pregnant if not for the money...
what made me surprised was the fact that they would spend most of the 9 months in that clinic being taught english and computer... it is supposed to be good but i don't know why i felt i was watching a science fiction movie where something doesn't seem so right like they are brain washed or something... but again that is the "dramatic" dots talking
:)
Posted by: dots... at January 2, 2008 06:43 PM