India allows its most destitute women to be exploited as if they were brood mares. A surrogacy industry recruits illiterate women, and pays them a pittance to gestate babies on behalf of well off (mostly) Westerners who can’t (or don’t want to) bear their own children.
A new Indian study on the industry illustrates some of the serious problems associated with this form of biological colonialism–including forced abortion, sex selection, and baby abandonment. (more...)
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