Outsourcing Surrogate Mothers To India
Customer service, tech support…these days we outsource everything to India.
Surrogate motherhood once was limited in India to helping close relatives who couldn’t complete a pregnancy due to medical difficulties. But now, poor Indian women are renting out their wombs to foreigners. Leading gynecologist Dr. Kamla Selvaraj says it’s now becoming a regular “profession” in India, with more and more women willing to carry babies for others, for a fee. India has for years been providing foreigners with in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment at a cheaper rate than the equivalent services in Western countries. While a couple in the U.S. will generally pay tens of thousands of dollars to a surrogate mother and affiliated agencies, in India the cost could be around $5,000, plus medical and attendant costs. If you haven’t seen the episode on Oprah, here you go.
