Do you have ehr womb?
Posted on 12/30/2007 1:06:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ANAND, India - Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.
A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.
The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them afterward. Anand's surrogate mothers, pioneers in the growing field of outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies.
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. But the program raises a host of uncomfortable questions that touch on morals and modern science, exploitation and globalization, and that most natural of desires: to have a family.
Dr. Nayna Patel, the woman behind Anand's baby boom, defends her work as meaningful for everyone involved.
"There is this one woman who desperately needs a baby and cannot have her own child without the help of a surrogate. And at the other end there is this woman who badly wants to help her (own) family," Patel said. "If this female wants to help the other one ... why not allow that? ... It's not for any bad cause. They're helping one another to have a new life in this world."
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Freedom of reproductive choice — but I’ll bet the NOW and NARAL crowd would object.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
It said some couples were from Britain — wonder if they are heterosexual?
That's a good question. I can only say that the more I know the less I understand. Some things are better left for Him to decide.
Happy New Year
FMCDH(BITS)
well said.
Two gay dads find “womb for rent”
new life is a big responsibility.
A woman can't be impregnated in vitro. The embro can be fertilized in vitro,
but live women are not made of glass.
Do you have ehr womb?
Maybe they could stay at the Taj Majal. Then they’d really have a womb with a view!
Really doesn’t matter ~ once conceived the focus must be on the welfare of the child.
No, but some are cold as ice.
This is really disgusting, in my opinion.
It does matter. It is a moral issue but not a legal one though. One gets selected. How many others were rejected though?
That is a different issue. I’m sure that in the long run we will address it with methods that eliminate human childbirth entirely.
That is a different issue. I’m sure that in the long run we will address it with methods that eliminate human childbirth entirely.
God gives us knowledge. Science can be used in good ways or bad. I don’t really know how I feel about this. I can see how it could help some women but abused by others.
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