I am still flabbergasted by the contents of an article written on January 3rd. Americans have become so savvy that we are now outsourcing wombs. Yes, that’s right,… OUTSOURCING WOMBS!
Your first geography is your mother’s womb. And if you have siblings, you’ve shared the very same womb, the same tender walls– life can’t get more magical than that, really. But now we’re growing babies in the wombs of Indian women who are stand-ins/surrogates and share not one smidge of the genetic material of the baby developing inside them. These women can make up to $10,000 (10-15 years salary) a pop to be pregnant and birth another woman’s baby. With that money, one woman said she could buy a house.
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/outsourced-wombs/index.html
I’m curious on responses to this. Are you grossed out, horrified, or does this idea ride easy and simple for you? Both women do get what they want in the end. Would you want to be a child who had come into life this way? Most people believe that what a mother eats, feels, and does affects the fetus. Is it too sentimental to even consider that this first geography is important in shaping us?
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Wow, this is really interesting. I guess, when it comes down to it, I’m glad that women in India are able to earn 10-15 years’ salary and that future parent/s dreams of a family are fulfilled. I do think that what a mother eats, feels, hears, does– all affect the fetus she is carrying, but perhaps a shift in geography will only nurture a more worldly individual. I imagine those babies growing up and going to India in gratitude some day. How’s that for sentimental?
I don’t know if our time in the womb shapes us any or not.
But I’m finding myself more concerned about what lengths people will go to to replicate themselves genetically when they could solve two problems at once by adopting a child.
And I’m having this scary vision of a future in which no one who’s anybody carries her own baby anymore!