Surrogate Mother - Market Meets Moral (Anas Khan)

Being a surrogate mother is one of the toughest experiences a woman can go through. In the process of taking care of her body and that of the child inside her, the woman goes through enormous amounts of trouble for a child. The process works somewhat like this, a couple wanting a child and cannot have one ask a relative or a volunteer to carry the child for them. The couple is not always one husband and wife, it could be homosexual couple or a single mother wanting a baby. It helps the couple who cannot have a child because of problems like female infertility and other medical conditions that become an obstacle towards pregnancy for the couple. Hence, when the couples choose a surrogate mother they tend to make them go through careful screening and proper health check up.

To make sure that they do not have any of the problems in the duration of the pregnancy that otherwise they could have avoided. In other words it can be called a renting of the womb in which a woman gives happiness and content to another family; on the other hand getting a little compensation out of it herself. While the issue of legality is another issue that needs to be kept in mind with such a delicate procedure, while countries like Japan and Netherlands have banned surrogacy other countries support it. The legality comes with the fact can someone's body be used for another persons wish for a price. While, there would be no issue in getting females to volunteer, the problem arises how many of them would be a good choice and the sum being paid is enough. Even though it could be allowed there are problems relating to the ethical issues involved, the mother child relationship that is severed; the problem of accommodating someone's child in your own house; the exchange of life for money. All though these might seem as trivial and frivolous moaning, the fact is that these are very real for a woman who has been carrying a child in her womb for nine months and gives it away. If the surrogate mother decides otherwise it can cause a lot of inconvenience to the couple. Especially when the couple has already invested a lot of money in the procedure, they could be left mulcted out of their money and not get their due, in this case a child. Well, the problems that could arise are numerous the reward is also equally worth the risk, that the couple are willing to take. In the long run such a risk seems small and a not worth the attention.

So, while riddled with ethical and legal problems people are ready to face them to have someone carry on their legacy. They are ready to fight and face those problems they otherwise would have shuddered at. This makes one really re-think the stance of surrogacy, is it giving life to someone else or is taking someone from them, highly debatable but at the same time clear as crystal if we may call it that.

Javitri Hospital and Test Tube Baby Centre is best place for Surrogacy in India. Surrogacy is the process where woman bears and gives birth either for individuals or couples. Hence, it signals endless celebrations for intended parents who run a proud family.