Outsourcing reproduction to India
Nothing new about surrogacy; but
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Reproductive outsourcing is a new but rapidly
expanding enterprise in India. Clinics that provide surrogate mothers for
foreigners say they have been inundated with requests from the United States and
Europe in recent months, as word spreads of India’s combination of skilled
medical professionals, relatively liberal laws and low
prices…
Commercial surrogacy, which is banned in some European countries and subject to a wide spectrum of regulation in U.S. states, was legalized in India in 2002…
Rudy Rupak, co-founder and president of PlanetHospital, a U.S. medical tourism agency, said he expects to send at least 100 couples to India this year for surrogacy, up from 25 in 2007, the first year he offered the service.
“Every time there is a success story, hundreds of inquiries follow,” he said…
For many, like Lisa Switzer, a 40-year-old medical technician from Texas whose twin babies are being carried by a surrogate mother from the clinic, the overwhelming attraction is the price.
“Doctors, lawyers, accountants, they can afford it, but the rest of us - the teachers, the nurses, the secretaries - we can’t. Unless we go to India,” she said.
Detailed article. The kind of piece the IHT does well. Even when it ain’t an easy topic.
Commercial surrogacy, which is banned in some European countries and subject to a wide spectrum of regulation in U.S. states, was legalized in India in 2002…
Rudy Rupak, co-founder and president of PlanetHospital, a U.S. medical tourism agency, said he expects to send at least 100 couples to India this year for surrogacy, up from 25 in 2007, the first year he offered the service.
“Every time there is a success story, hundreds of inquiries follow,” he said…
For many, like Lisa Switzer, a 40-year-old medical technician from Texas whose twin babies are being carried by a surrogate mother from the clinic, the overwhelming attraction is the price.
“Doctors, lawyers, accountants, they can afford it, but the rest of us - the teachers, the nurses, the secretaries - we can’t. Unless we go to India,” she said.
Detailed article. The kind of piece the IHT does well. Even when it ain’t an easy topic.
Posted: Fri - March 7, 2008 at 09:33 AM