Many corporations have sent jobs to India to reduce costs. Now India is again on the cusp of a new outsourcing phase.  Indian women are having babies for infertile couples in other countries.

As the work of information technology is outsourced via the internet, advances in biotechnology have enabled child bearing to be sent offshore. With in-vitro fertilization, a women’s egg and man’s sperm are joined in a Petri dish and some fertilized eggs are then implanted in a surrogate.

Commercial surrogacy has been legal in India since 2002. The city of Anand, already known as the milk capital of the nation, is well on its way to be Silicon Valley of infant output.

Currently there a 50 Indian women carrying immigrated embryos. Couples from the US, Britain, and Taiwan are availing themselves of this service. The US cost of in-vitro is $60,000, out of the reach of many couples who would like have to a child. It can be done in India for $6,000 for those who have the money and the access.

There is protest against pregnancy outsourcing. The Catholic Church and the Aryan Brotherhood have formed an alliance to oppose the practice on moral grounds.  The Church’s position is an embryo unused violates the sanctity of life; the Brotherhood maintains a baby born by an Indian mother despoils racial purity. 

Despite issues of sanctity and purity, experts forecast that more US couples will arrange for Indian in-vitro to cope with the rising cost of US healthcare.

Self-serving institutional greed,morality and bluster can’t stop some couples from creating a family. 

Note: Ripped from the headlines and totally made-up.