Rent-a-womb, a thriving industry unbridled by law

[FarCenter]

Right in the heart of this city, which found a place on the atlas as the Milk Capital of India, is a ‘fertility clinic-cum-hostel’ to house women who rent their wombs, mostly for foreign couples.

The facility, which runs under the name Akanksha Fertility Clinic, caters for 30 surrogate mothers at any given point. Driven by poverty, the women bear and nurse a child of another couple, for a price.

Thanks to the emergence of surrogate motherhood as a multimillion-dollar industry in the country, the clinic is doing a roaring business. What is the success formula? An unending supply of poor and illiterate women and the absence of laws have made the trade the fastest way to make money.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3640405.ece

[valerief]

1. Ah, The Handmaid's Tale. Not just fiction anymore. nt

[lunatica]

2. Wow. Just wow.

[polly7]

3. God, that's sad.

'No mandatory health or life insurance for the surrogate in case of her death'.

[loyalsister]

4. I have been seeing TV ads for this "service'

Not sure if it's the same organization, though. It makes me so sick and sad.

[flamingdem]

5. India! Check out Craigslist under "ETC" jobs in any urban US city

Tons of ads looking for surrogate moms