Reproductive tourism: Paying women in poor countries to bear our babies is rife with ethical problems

October 24, 2012

By some accounts, the Indian ART industry is worth $500 million to $2.3 billion. In their upcoming paper, “Ethical concerns for maternal surrogacy and reproductive tourism” in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Professor Raywat Deonandan of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, along with students Samantha Green and Amanda van Beinum, enumerate the specific ethical challenges posed by this emerging new industry. (Health Canal)