Thursday, March 01, 2007
The Future is Here
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India is fast cornering what is forecast as a £3 billion-a-year market in “reproductive tourism”. It has highly trained, English-speaking doctors and medical procedures that cost a third of the price charged in Europe for 'embryo adoption".
The report says couples are lining up because it is cheaper than through infertility in Europe and highlights one couple's joy in having the embryos transplanted saying: "It is a lot like adoption but you have the feeling of a natural pregnancy.”
While social workers in India fear that poor women are being exploited for “rent-a-womb” services such as surrogacy, banned for commercial gain in countries such as Australia and China...there is one major thing missing in all of these reports...
Not one word of thought or concern for the "embryo" as it grows into a human being! There is no mention who fathers these children or if one or both of the original parents remain totally anonymous "donors."
Ladies - this is how much we as birthmothers are though of in the adoption equation! We are geese that lay golden eggs - PERIOD! At best we are pitied.
Infant adoption is in no way any more altruistic than any other way of obtaining what is sought - a baby! It is simply just one of many options to "cure" infertility.
We are but handmaids.
India is fast cornering what is forecast as a £3 billion-a-year market in “reproductive tourism”. It has highly trained, English-speaking doctors and medical procedures that cost a third of the price charged in Europe for 'embryo adoption".
The report says couples are lining up because it is cheaper than through infertility in Europe and highlights one couple's joy in having the embryos transplanted saying: "It is a lot like adoption but you have the feeling of a natural pregnancy.”
While social workers in India fear that poor women are being exploited for “rent-a-womb” services such as surrogacy, banned for commercial gain in countries such as Australia and China...there is one major thing missing in all of these reports...
Not one word of thought or concern for the "embryo" as it grows into a human being! There is no mention who fathers these children or if one or both of the original parents remain totally anonymous "donors."
Ladies - this is how much we as birthmothers are though of in the adoption equation! We are geese that lay golden eggs - PERIOD! At best we are pitied.
Infant adoption is in no way any more altruistic than any other way of obtaining what is sought - a baby! It is simply just one of many options to "cure" infertility.
We are but handmaids.
# posted by Senior Mom @ 12:34 PM 
