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Dateline steps into the middle of the great "Womb for Rent" debate.
Video Journalist Yalda Hakim visits a so-called 'baby factory' in the
Indian state of Gujarat.
Hakim meets over 50 women live while they carry babies for well-off Western clients.
The
women are poor and come from India's appalling slums. They are paid
about US$ 7,000 for providing babies - a fortune in their terms - and
receive good medical care and attention throughout their nine month
term. With an increasing number of Australians travelling to India for
the service, this surrogacy boom has sparked a fierce moral, ethical
and legal debate.
"It’s just horrific to consider this in moral
terms as though this were some sort of legitimate transaction. It’s
not. Basically at the end of the day it’s wealthy people exploiting
poor people," says ethicist Nick Tonti- Filippini
That claim is strongly rejected by Dr Nayna Patel, co-founder of the Akanksha clinic.
"How can you say that couple is exploiting the female when the female willingly wants to do it?"
On air: 22nd February 2009
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