Monday, November 11, 2013

Wombs for rent: India's surrogate mother boomtown

In India, surrogate mothers are being more common because many women feel that it is a great way to earn money. In a hostel in Anand, Gujarat, fifty surrogate mothers live together that all have other people's babies in their wombs. They are reported to make 8,000 US dollars for carrying a baby. These women are completely satisfied with performing these acts because most families in India only make two dollars a day from toiling out on the farms working endlessly. They say that they need to make the money in this way to support their families and in order to educate their children. Moreover, India has now taken steps to regulate the industry. Foreign same-sex couples and single parents are not permitted to hire surrogates. In addition, a new reform would require mothers to be between the ages of 21 and 35. On the flip side however, many surrogate mothers do not receive the money that they are often told they were to receive being tricked.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/asia/india-surrogate-mother-industry/index.html?iref=allsearch

1. Is it ethical for a woman to hold their baby in a surrogate mother? What would happen if the surrogate mother later realizes she wants to keep the baby?

2. What kind of human rights are being harmed as a result of surrogacy in India?



1 comment:

  1. I don't think that it is that ethical to have a surrogate mother. With all of the wonderful children already in the world, why can't parents adopted? Why must they go to such great lengths to force a pregnancy? This does cause many issues cause it could cause complications for the woman holding the baby. If the mother were to want to keep the baby, then whose baby would it actually be? The human rights being violated are that ese women are being used as products to hold babies and are not being taken care of.

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