a way poor women can survive without whoring

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IC01Df05.html


India gives birth to lucrative business

Surrogate mothers being outsourced to India add one more chapter to the saga of cheaper "jobs" being transferred to low-cost economies such as India. For now, "hiring" a womb appears to be a win-win situation, both from the cost and quality of medical service.

-snip-

The cost of renting a womb is under US$5,000, compared to more than $50,000 in the West. The entire procedure in India costs in the range of $10,000, and the quality of treatment and technology and the expertise of the country's doctors compares with the best in the world.

What is more, the surrogate mother in the case above desperately needed the money. She lives in an impoverished district of West Bengal and needs to pay for treatment for her own very ill child who is suffering from a heart ailment.

-snip-

It seems that while one life has been created, another has been saved, though there has been criticism regarding the "commoditization of motherhood", risk to health and exploitation of the poor by the rich. However, the "plight" of a smiling surrogate mother with a big bank balance still looks like a better option than being one of the thousands of destitute women who are pushed into prostitution and treated mercilessly.

-snip-

According to Indian medical practitioners, 100 to 150 of the 500 to 600 surrogate babies born across the world every year are born in India. Many more are trying without success.
-snip-
-------------------------


both whoring and pregnancies wear down a woman's body, each in their own and similar ways.

but poverty wears down a woman in all her spaces.

shrug

but what's a woman to do

[niyad]

1. I fully understand the need and desperation, but once again, women are put in the category of vessel

or brood mare, nothing more than a convenience. I have NO criticism for the women who have to resort to this to care for their familes.

I DO, however, have a great deal of criticism for the whole practice of "surrogates". There is nothing anywhere that says that we MUST reproduce, and frankly, I worry about the people who go to such lengths.
Flame if you like, but I frankly think that some people are so obsessed with the idea of their own blood offspring that, to me, that very obsession renders them unfit.

[Sapphire Blue]

3. I agree w/you, niyad, and I'd go further by saying that it's just a different kind of whoring...

... that women in poverty are often forced into.


And in preparation for the flames that will surely come...

[donsu]

4. love your flame suit

nt

[MountainLaurel]

2. So instead of the freestanding uteruses that Huxley wrote of

At least I think it was Huxley, now we're just outsourcing the uterus work to India. No big surprise there.

[Quantess]

5. Gross. (no text.)

[Robbien]

6. So many opportunities

Sell an organ, carry a baby, work in the sex industry.