there was an Article in the Daily Mail Uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2357895/India-reduced-surrogacy-cold-commercial-transaction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
on surrogacy again.it seems to me that the Daily mail has special vested interest in Indian Surrogacy.it also seems the Journo has not done a detailed study but seems to
have based his article on numerous other articles written on similar lines by
vested foreign journalists who are being paid by Clinics and agencies abroad who are afraid of loosing their patients to Indian
clinics.
By saying that India has reduced surrogacy to a cold commercial
transaction is doing a great disservice to the Indian Doctors,their staff,the infertile
patients,their babies and the hundreds of surrogate mothers who offer their
wombs to carry a baby for 4 lac rupees.an amount which they will probably never
earn in their lifetime.the Journo is also not aware that the Govt. Of India is allowing only married Heterosexual couples to have babies through surrogacy in INDIA since the beginning of this year another reason to believe it is a paid story.
the journalist advocates adoption as a alternative,well he
wouldn't if he had applied for adopting a child in one of the numerous adoption
centres in INDIA.one has to wait for atleast 2 to 5 years to adopt a baby subject to the numerous illogical checks and balances in the adoption law.
by using word like
"cheap",he shows that Some Indians have not gotten over deriding
their own people in front of the entire world.American clinics perform the most
number of ivf surrogacy cases worldwide yet one never hears a story like this
about the American surrogacy clinics and Agencies.
What Indian ART clinics and Doctors offers is unique and nothing short of a miracle and what the Surrogate's offer is an absolutely selfless act of Altruism and no article or journalist can take this away from them.
Dr.Samit sekhar.
ivf and Surrogacy program Director.
