HEALTHCARE
HEALTHCARE TRENDS
CHINA
Despite the government
crackdown, the surrogacy services
and agencies are flourishing
in China and doing profitable
business. According to Chinese
newspaper, Global Times, the
surrogacy market in Beijing is still
flourishing. Although most agencies
had stopped surrogacy services
due to government crackdown but
many are still open and rendering
services to people.
EMPOWERING WOMEN,
CHANGING LIVES
Outsourcing your needs to a third
party miles away dimes a dozen
and yet you opportune a fortune.
The industry sees it as a propitious
situation: where childless couples
see their pipe dream becoming an
undisputed reality with a genetic
child and the strapped surrogate
urrogate
mother gets a plentiful sum
um to no
more succumb her needs..
COMMODIFYING AND
EXPLOITING
Over a period of time, social
ocial
activists have raised their concerns
oncerns
terming surrogacy as a business
ness
that not only reinforces the gender
stereotype of commodifying a
woman, but also leads to the
exploitation of surrogates who
often have no knowledge of
their rights and the complexities
involved in the process. In several
countries where surrogacy is illegal
or banned by the government, the
market is going totally unregulated
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paying for the health facilities.
There have also been reports of
women being trafficked into the
industry. Also there is no fixed
amount paid to surrogates and
many surrogates do not get the full
amount promised, while others get
nothing if they miscarry.
Is banning of fertility tourism a
solution to the problem? Will it
be possible to ban and regulate all
informal measures or do we need
more accountable laws to regulate
the same.
editor@wcrcleaders.com