Giving Birth Latest Job Outsourced to India
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The small clinic at Kaival Hospital in Anand, India matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them afterward. Anand’s surrogate mothers (pictured above), pioneers in the growing field of outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies.
More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years.
Experts say commercial surrogacy could take off in India for the same reasons outsourcing in other industries has been successful: a wide labor pool working for relatively low rates.
Suman Dodia, a pregnant, baby-faced 26-year-old, said she will buy a house with the $4,500 she receives from the British couple whose child she’s carrying. It would have taken her 15 years to earn that on her maid’s monthly salary of $25.
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(HT: Sanil Kori)
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