@ LG - I agree with u & I totally see the moral side to it, but if I couldn't carry a kid of my own, if I couldn't be bless with that priviledge, & some other women is willing to go thru it for me & let me see it from day one & be part of her experience, then yes I do think I would be able to go thru it. Althou I do gotta say, I wouldn't want her around me or my family, little less my child after she gives birth. Maybe it's a selfish thing of me, but if I'm paying her, then she better hit the road after that, because I don't see why she sould be involved after it.
Althou I personally wouldn't be able to go thru this experience as the one who would carry it, but I would consider this service if i personally couldn't, althou I would have to see allllll the pros & cons & do all the research before I go for it.
I don't think it's sooooo bad if it's used for a good/nice cause. Meaning if u couldn't do it urself & ask a women to service it for u & u compensating her for her job & hard 9 months, but it's its a dirty side buss. then no it's wrong.
I guess my point is from the view of the woman doing the "job". I mean - no matter how badly you're doing financially... do you see yourself ever being able to be a surrogate mother in exchange for any amount of money? Can you, as a woman, be able to go through nine months of pregnancy just to give it away at the delivery date? I am no woman, but I couldn't do it.
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I don't think it's sooooo bad if it's used for a good/nice cause. Meaning if u couldn't do it urself & ask a women to service it for u & u compensating her for her job & hard 9 months, but it's its a dirty side buss. then no it's wrong.
Producer Dan Schlanger Writer / Researcher Fabian Dawson Canada / in-development Color / Stereo / English / 42 minutes
This one-hour film shows the compelling stories of young Indian women both in Canada and India whose desperation to have a baby has led to a fledgling but thriving womb renting industry in India.
Smita Pandya, is expecting her third child. Unlike the other two, she is being paid to carry this one.
"Why not, if it helps me give my own children a better future?" asked the housewife. Navina Patel, 26, her two sisters and her sister-in-law have all taken to bearing children as a means to enhance their living standards. "My mother-in-law suggested it to me. We needed to buy a good house," said Navina. Three months ago, Navinas sister-in-law became a surrogate mother of twins. "We now have a good house to live in" she adds. Shilpa, 32, one of her sisters said: "Only my husband knows about it. I feel it is noble as it will bring happiness into a couples life."
The women are part of womb renting industry that has spawned in the rural hinterland of Anand in Indias state of Gujarat. Primarily catering to childless Indian couples living in Canada, Britain, Australia and the United States, the professional surrogates get paid between one and two lakh rupees (about C$2,500 and C$5,000) to improve their poor and landless lives.
Their champion is gynecologist Dr Nayna Patel, who has been practicing In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) for seven years now in her hamlet of hope. The gynecologist who has been tending to numerous "clients" at her hospital in Anand told the Press Trust of India, "women preferring to become surrogate mothers are briefed right from the start that they will have to hand over the child to the childless couple soon after the delivery and are repeatedly told this whenever examined during pregnancy."
Dr. Patel, director of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic knows what she is talking about.
She was a key player in the so called "grandmother case", where a woman delivered her daughters twins in 2004.
Last month she paraded about a dozen professional surrogates from Anand in front of Indian media as she pushed for acceptance for professional surrogacy. Another lucrative source of income for the women in Anand is egg donations.
"We earn anywhere up to five thousand rupees (about C$130) in 20 days time. Where will we earn money so quickly without doing anything immoral," said a woman identified as Geeta.
As news spreads and egg donors get introduced by their neighbors and relatives, hesitation about surrogacy is dissipating, reported Indian media.
In fact, Geeta is willing to reverse a family planning operation to chance an earning as a surrogate mother.
"Women without uterus and underdeveloped uterus or medical conditions are forced to go for surrogacy," says Dr Mona Bhatt, a gynecologist in Vadodara. Doctors say 70 perent of the clients are Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who find their efforts to get a child cheaper in India.
"Most NRIs prefer surrogate mothers from India as it is easier to find one. An agency abroad may charge about US$30,000 and the surrogate mother is given another US$15,000. Moreover the surrogate also enjoys certain rights over the baby," said Dr Patel.
The surrogate mother and egg donation industry is also catching on in other parts of India. The Pune Fertility Centre in Shivajinagar recently announced a surrogacy programme and invited women in the 25-30 years age group to enroll as members. Chief IVF consultant and endoscopist at Ruby Hall Clinic Sunita Tandulwadkar said they had been receiving several queries. "It is legal in India," she said. While wombs for rent in India may be legal, in Canada it is a different story.
The Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act states that no payment can be made to a sperm or egg donor for their donation nor can payment be given to a woman providing surrogacy services. An official with British Columbias Adoption Agency said that Canada and India are among the signatory-countries of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Inter-country Adoption which aims to stops trafficking of children and illegal adoptions. She, however, said that surrogacy is not specifically covered by the convention.
Kathleen Walker, a Vancouver-based family lawyer said surrogate motherhood is "technically a no-no" in Canada. "You cant pay for anything and if I understand it, not even for medical expenses. Its a very tough law. Walker said if all the activities related to the contract are done in India, the general rule in law would say that Canada has no jurisdiction. "But if negotiations are initiated or done from Canada, the law will come into play," she said _______________________________________ For those of you who watch OPRAH, this topic will be discussed on her show TODAY. What do you guyst think?
I personally don't agree with it and see it as a crazzzzy idea - to rent your womb for the sole purpose of making money. We're talking about a little human being growing inside you, you nurture it in your womb for 9 months, and then just give it away?
I can understand being pregnant, not being able to support it/raise it and giving the baby up for adoption so that the baby could have a better life. To do it just as a business transaction seems totally fu cked to me!
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I am no woman, but I couldn't do it.
