Surrogacy is embryo transfer. Women who want babies but not the pregnancy that produces the babe, have their fertilized embryos inserted into other women. These women carry the baby to term. They are surrogates.
What has happened is an industry has arisen in Third World Countries.
In India, the number of women renting their wombs for affluent white foreigners was so high that the government enacted a law limiting the practice to Indian couples. All that did was open the “market” to other desperate Third World women.
To me, this is just one example of a cultural fad gone amock. Too many us jump on the latest fad without thinking very deeply. Sound good, if you can't carry your own baby to term. But good things are misused and in this case, our most vulnerable (babies and poor women), are being taken advantage of.
The author's of the Breakpoint article, John Stonestreet and Robero Rivera refer us to other references to learn more:
surrogacy clinics
- Julie Bindel | The Guardian | April 1, 2016
Can I Hire a Caucasian Egg Donor?
- Sensible Surrogacy | July 3, 2014
Wombs on rent: Inside a surrogacy hostel in India
- Seemi Pasha | Dailyo.in | September 22, 2016
The infertility industry has a dirty little secret. . .
- Center for Bioethics and Culture
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