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With impending ban, surrogate mothers grab last chance to rent a womb

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Inside a bungalow in a plush residential area of Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, a group of women in different stages of pregnancy share the hope that their babies will be delivered safely - or risk losing the chance of big money, forever.
Successful pregnancies have never been more important at this surrogacy centre where every bed is taken following a jump in demand as India inches towards banning commercial surrogacy.

These women could be among the last in the country to rent their wombs for money if Parliament passes a bill to outlaw commercial surrogacy -- a 15-year-old industry estimated to be worth as much as $2.3 billion annually -- in its next session starting in February.

India’s surrogacy industry has come under attack by women’s rights groups who say fertility clinics are “baby factories” for the rich, and that a lack of regulation results in poor and uneducated women signing contracts they do not fully understand.

Yet some of the women the bill aims to protect are currently queuing up for a last chance to make around Rs 400,000 - money they said they could only dream of otherwise.

Razia Sultana, 32, had an embryo transferred into her uterus in the final week of December.

Until six months ago, she arranged egg donors and surrogates for infertility clinics, making Rs 5,000 for each referral, but decided to become a surrogate herself on the day she first heard about the ban.

“My children supported my decision saying bearing a child was better than selling a kidney, which I was considering too,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.


She will stay at the centre for nine months, meet her children once a week and only go outside with an escort.

“These are small compromises. I have no other option to make this kind of money.”

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/with-impending-ban-surrogate-mothers-grab-last-chance-to-rent-a-womb/story-VNweLN2H6DvDFBuQqkKOPI.html

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