From
BBC;
Surrogacy
business is quite booming in India especially in Dr Nanya Patel's clinic
situated at rural Gujarat, which houses up to 100 surrogate mothers. Women who
carry babies for couples with fertility problems are paid US$8,000 while the
doctor gets $28,000.
The (surrogacy)
industry believed to be worth over $1billion (£619m) attracts childless couples
from all over the world. Couples employ surrogate mothers as nannies and when
they are through with all necessary paper work, they separate and take the
children back to their respective countries.
The
Doctor has several times been accused of running a baby-making factory and
exploiting poor women but she doesn't see herself in that light, she considers
herself as a feminist who is empowering them to take charge of their lives and
improve their future prospects.
"According to
many, I am controversial. There have been allegations of baby selling, baby
making factory. The surrogates are doing the physical work agreed and they are
being compensated for it." She defended.
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