Offshoring Surrogacy ~ Indian Infertility Help...

Building on the Medical Tourism story I wrote about a couple weeks ago, see this Radio Netherlands Worldwide story on Western babies ~ made in India...

"More and more Westerners are hiring women in India as surrogate mothers. [...] At an infertility clinic in the state of Gujarat, there are over 50 active surrogates. The surrogacy team has an average of three babies a month. The surrogates are implanted with the client's embryo. They carry under contract until delivery. The surrogate mothers rent out their wombs for around 5000 euros, the equivalent of 10 years of wages in India. Dr Nayna Patel started the clinic five years ago. She requires surrogates to already have their own children and limits each to three tries. She cringes at anyone who calls this exploitative. "As soon as you come to a poor country," she says, "you say that it's exploitation. But I know what it means to be a surrogate and how the compensation changes these women's lives."

See here the full VJmovement videoreport by Linda Blake...