India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood

March 10, 2008

Yonatan Gher and his partner, who are Israeli, plan eventually to tell their child about being made in India, in the womb of a stranger, with the egg of a Mumbai housewife they picked from an Internet lineup. Women like these at a clinic in Anand can earn much more as surrogate mothers than at normal jobs. The embryo was formed in January in an Indian fertility clinic about 2,500 miles from the couple’s home in Tel Aviv, produced by doctors who have begun specializing in surrogacy services for couples from around the world. (New York Times)