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Would you rent out your womb to make some extra cash? Apparently a growing number of women in India are doing just that. And it's freaking me out.
According to an article I read in Marie Claire (take it or leave it, ladies, but it was in print) couples in the United States who are, for whatever reason, unable to or uninterested in carrying pregnancies to term in their own wombs are turning to women in India to do it.
I've heard of publishing companies outsourcing typesetting to India, but this seems a bit extreme and ridiculous.
Although I couldn't dig up the article for you online, it can be found in the August issue of Marie Claire featuring growing star Anne Hathaway on the cover. The article is titled "Womb for Rent" and is wriiten by Abigail Haworth.
Scary similarities to Brave New World and the Sci-Fi genre in general, I think it would emotionally be very hard to have a baby, even if it weren't made of your own genetic material, and then have to turn it over to people who were basically strangers.
Of course, surrogate parenting is nothing new in this country. It's a service that has provided many women with the opportunity to have a family when they otherwise could not. What interested me about this article is that the women involved were doing it to make money.
If you get a chance, check out the article and let me know what you think! If nothing else it makes for some very interesting reading.
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7-17-2007 @ 3:56PM
Eva said...You wouldn't be so flippant about people who need surrogates if you had infertility/miscarriage problems yourself.
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7-17-2007 @ 4:40PM
M4Mommy said...and ALL surrogates in the US do it for the shits and giggles? because they LOVE being pregnant?
Give me a break. A LOT, not all, surrogates in this country "rent" their wombs out to infertile couples for the cash. Not to "bring another couple the joy of having their own child"
There is nothing at all wrong with using a surrogate to have a baby. And even less wrong with becoming a surrogate to help pay bills. Would I do it? Heck no. I hated being pregnant with my own baby. Would I look for a surrogate if I wanted to have a child and couldnt do it the "natural" way? Yup. I certainly would
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7-18-2007 @ 2:22AM
countrymouse/citymouse said...I think it's interesting that for many childless Americans, an Indian woman's womb is good enough to grow a white baby, but the adoption of a brown child from India would be unacceptable.
I do have "infertility problems" myself, and I'm not renting out a womb so that I can have a genetic replica -- I'm adopting.
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7-18-2007 @ 3:46PM
Jenn said...I don't see anything different about this than surrogacy in the US; not many people in the US do it "for the love," either.
But as another respondent mentioned, I honestly don't understand spending that much money (for surrogacy OR IVF & other infertility treatments), versus spending the money to adopt. We did have some (relatively minor) issues with getting pregnant, and when they were first discovered, made a decision as to how far we would go with infertility treatments, and if none of those worked, we'd start the adoption process.
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7-18-2007 @ 8:36PM
SKL said...Adoption is a great alternative, but not really accessible to everyone. In particular, if you look into adopting an Indian infant, you will find it impossible for most Americans.
I am not sure why this particular reproductive choice is seen as more offensive than others. It sounds like all the participants are willing. I agree that being pregnant with someone else's baby probably isn't fun, but neither is starving, nor bending over in the fields alongside your children all day.
I know some people in rich countries believe that anything a poor person does to make money is necessarily exploitative. However, people from those situations are a lot happier to have the opportunity to make money than not. Until I hear of women being FORCED to carry another couple's baby (as could happen, for example, if someone with more power was "pimping" their wombs), I don't see a problem here.
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7-19-2007 @ 8:08AM
Jennifer Jordan said...SKL: Very well-put!
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