In India, Women Rent Their Wombs to infertile American Women
2008 January 4
Judith Warner blogs about the increasing trend (estimated to be $450 Million Dollars in India alone) of international surrogacy. (http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/)
What I found fascinating was that unlike in France, where commercial surrogacy is banned, or in Italy, where almost every form of assisted reproduction is now illegal, laws in the United States are highly ambivalent on this most drastic use of reproductive technology.
It seems like an issue of economics, where surrogacy costs upwards of $80,000 whereas in India it is less than $10,000!
My first impulse is to grieve the ecomonic injustice that would lead to this being an attractive source of income.