Outsourcing Birth

This clip, from the documentary Google Baby, is as heart-wrenching to watch as it is horrifying. In India poor women are “recruited” to become surrogates for childless middle-class western couples. This kind of language should leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth: A key figure in the narrative is Dr. Nayna Patel, who started the Gujarat clinic that recruits surrogate … Continue reading Outsourcing Birth