LaShonda Williams
Blog # 6
October 9, 2011
Many women in India are beginning to turn to surrogacy as a way to survive. Most of these women are poor and need money and care. They believe that surrogacy is an easy way to get paid. India’s surrogacy industry is booming and it is becoming a lucrative part of India’s medical tourism market. Many Americans go to India to find a surrogate mother since it is much cheaper to buy a child in India then in America. According to the bill created behind surrogacy the mothers have no rights to the child they are carrying. This proposed law does not spell out what a surrogate mother would be paid if she was to have a miscarriage or other complications during the pregnancy. Many of the doctors and clinics look at these women as a part of an industry. Most of the surrogate mothers are unaware of their rights because they come from such poor backgrounds.
Ethically these women should not be treated as objects to help their country gain money. However, these surrogate mothers don’t see it that way. The fact that most of these women are looking to escape a life of poverty makes this industry seem as if they are praying upon women who have no were else to turn. Instead of India turning these women into surrogate mothers they should consider some other form of help for them. The time that a woman spends carrying a child is the time that she bonds with the baby the most. What if a woman signs this contract but decides that she wants to keep her child. At that point there would be nothing that she can do but giver her baby away against her wishes. Some of the women think that surrogacy is okay for a women and who wouldn’t get paid to have a child. This is a very unrealistic way of looking at pregnancy because there are so many different scenarios that could play out for a mother carrying a child.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/world/asia/05iht-letter05.html?_r=1&ref=women
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