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What do you think about outsourcing pregnancies to India?
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Posted 7 months ago If you haven't already, read this article. Is it acceptable for surrogacy to become a "profession" or industry of sorts in the developing world? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Its weird...hard to know where to draw the line. I guess I cant relate to being so attached to my own genes that I would seek out a foreign woman to have my baby...maybe I shouldn't pass judgment. All I know is that baby farms seem creepy and unnatural. |
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| Posted 7 months ago Not sure about this one. I can see how this can be exploited. especially when this becomes a trend. I can see rich women who do not want to go through the process, hire a woman to do it for them. Either because they vain or have extremely busy professional lives. I think for those women who can't by any means have children of their own, this can be a last resort. |
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| Posted 7 months ago I don't see how this is too different from the tons of people who are adopting abroad. As long as the child is going to family who will care and love it, I don't see the problem. If it turns out of control, the government should step in and make firm guildelines. |
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| Posted 7 months ago This is a strange one but consider the following scenario: a woman can't bear a child so she has a surrogate mom here in the United States carry her child. We all think: kudos to the surrogate mom. I think that the prime point of concern here becomes the money. Surrogacy as an industry, as a point of income, as a divide between women who can afford to pay a surrogate mom and surrogate moms who need the money. All this money and still children who are unwanted. |
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| Posted 7 months ago Kaamna said: I think you hit this one on the head, why is it the "developing world" that seems to be ripe for this. What I mean to say is that maybe early on things are done correctly etc... but should we actually believe that down the road, the surrogates will be treated fairly etc...., much as some women are tricked into the sex industry, why shouldn't we believe the same exploitation won't happen here..... |
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| Posted 7 months ago I immediately thought of the sex industry when I read this also. And just like Sex Slavery...could pimps essentially broker surrogacy as well. The fact is though...it is legal in the US...so can this be regulated abroad? What possibilities does anyone see for putting limits, boundaries on this. And I agree with Mona Pandya...there are so many unloved kids...why so attached to the genes? |
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| Posted 7 months ago How do you determine the nationality of a child born in India to an Indian nation from egg and sperm of Americans? That's what I want to know |
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| Posted 7 months ago If the parents are American....so is the kid. It's just like if the biological mothered had carried the pregnancy to term and gave birth in India....the child can have american citizenship. I don't think the law gets down to those details. although I am not 100% sure. |
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| Posted 7 months ago Well, it just stretches the meaning of biological parent. What if an anonymous American donor gave sperm to an Indian woman and the egg was hers? |
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| Posted 7 months ago True...I wonder in the US, what the surrogates rights are to the fetus, if any...if they are egg donors vs. not egg donors....anyone a lawyer? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Kaamna said: There is a high demand for stolen organs as well===> Why not legalize organ sales ? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Zoosolo said: good idea Zoosolo. |
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| Posted 7 months ago I hate to throw this in but once something is subjected to "market" forces it becomes subject to the same abuses as any other commodity. Why am I am the only male in this discussion :) |
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| Posted 7 months ago distantwizard said: well, if you're born in India, you are an Indian. much like being born in America, you are an American. i think that's how that works...? |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Even with all the money out there for surrogates, I still can't fathom the idea of carrying someone else's child in my body for 9 months and then having to give it up! And the idea of baby farms... I think kitrichert put it well... CREEPY! |
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| Posted 25 days ago People will do anything to survive in this world and make money, this is just 1 more case of that. Poor people ready to do anything to get by in this world. Lazy people not wanting to go through the "trouble" of getting pregnant and carrying a child for 9 months. Outsourcing of jobs I think started because people in this country dont give importance to education of their children and end up having more drop outs then children with good clean basic education. More importance is paid to dating, attending PROMS, sex education and filling up un-wanted ideas in childrens minds and of course SPORTS, the great football thing. Ergo shortage of young minds who will work hard at a desk and do things in the corporate world. India saw a chance and moved in and filled in the spaces because obviously corporates over here also found a way out to get a lot more done for less. Turn around and apply all this to pregnancies. I am really not sure why any one would do that. Out-sourcing pregnancies is the weirdest thing. I was surprised when americans abandoning "american orphans" went and started adopting babies from CHINA. Why would anybody not care for so many of the kids or babies over here who are looking for families and get a baby from another country? I have no idea. Now it is a trend or a fashion statement to go to the poorest african nation and adpot a kid. Good for the kid I guess - bad for the kids and babies over here. I know my post makes no sense but I guess I am this cynical person who is also gone a little crazy trying to understand this world. WHAT ELSE WILL PEOPLE DO FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY? They eat bugs, eat dirt, they are ready to wash their dirty linen in public in shows like "moment of truth"....... What can be made out from this post is that I like to write and like to read what i write irrespective of whether it makes any sense in this world? I guess. |